“It is not titles that make men illustrious, but men who make titles illustrious.”
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“Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many.”
“No circumstance is ever so desperate that one cannot nurture some spark of hope.”
“Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart.”
“I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me.”
“And I'll stay away from Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.”
“Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.”
“Yet, as only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the night.”
“Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.”
“It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm.”
“I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.”
“That woman speaks eighteen languages, and can't say No in any of them.”