A novel must be exceptionally good to live as long as the average cat.

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Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them.

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To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

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Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him.

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I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.

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Frequent and loud laughter is the characteristic of folly and ill manners.

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Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

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Advice is seldom welcome, and those who need it the most, like it the least.

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Choose your pleasures for yourself, and do not let them be imposed upon you.

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He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves.

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