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"Litigation: A machine which you go into as a pig and come out of as a sausage."

"Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends."

"I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it becomes to replace them. It's one of the curses of London."

"The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up."

"We know what happens to people who stay in the middle of the road. They get run over."

"All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher."

"The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge."

"There are four kinds of Homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy."

"Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen."

"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

"Success is the one unpardonable sin against our fellows."
Success

"Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable."

"Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious."

"Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age."

"An egotist is a person of low taste-more interested in himself than in me."

"Bigot: One who is obstinately and zealously attached to an opinion that you do not entertain."

"Mayonnaise: One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion."

"Death is not the end. There remains the litigation over the estate."

"Painting, n.: The art of protecting flat surfaces from the weather, and exposing them to the critic."
Art

"To be positive is to be mistaken at the top of one's voice."

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