“There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth.”
Wisdom Quotes · Page 6
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“Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
“Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.”
“If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.”
“I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever.”
“He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.”
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
“Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality.”
“Men marry because they are tired; women because they are curious. Both are disappointed.”
“Moderation is a fatal thing, Lady Hunstanton. Nothing succeeds like excess.”
“The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.”
“I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance.”
“Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is.”
“To speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse.”
“Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue.”
“I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings.”
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