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Men always want to be a woman's first love, women like to be a man's last romance.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

The only charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception necessary for both parties.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.