It is a curious thing... that every creed promises a paradise which will be absolutely uninhabitable for anyone of civilized taste.
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Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.
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Almost all crime is due to the repressed desire for aesthetic expression.
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One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.
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Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.
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