It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic.

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Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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An unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones.

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It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

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Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me.

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A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

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American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers.

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There is hardly anyone whose sexual life, if it were broadcast, would not fill the world at large with surprise and horror.

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