Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

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The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.

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No city should be too large for a man to walk out of in a morning.

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No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

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There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

Cyril Connolly in The Unquiet Grave (1945)
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Everything is a dangerous drug except reality, which is unendurable.

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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

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We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

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Imprisoned in every fat man a thin man is wildly signaling to be let out.

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