Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.

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When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.

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Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.

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In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against than bad taste is good taste.

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It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

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A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

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If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

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The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any other building that has gone remotely by the name of architecture in our history.

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The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, and there are, by the same token, always more and more people to look down upon.

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