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All our lives we are putting pennies - our most g

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All our lives we are putting pennies - our most golden pennies - into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

How many of our daydreams would darken into night

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How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!

What I like in a good author is not what he says,

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What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

There are two things to aim at in life: fir

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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

What is more mortifying than to feel you've misse

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What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

Charming people live up to the very edge of their

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Charming people live up to the very edge of their charm, and behave as outrageously as the world lets them.

All reformers, however strict their social consci

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All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which

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There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beau

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What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for Beauty, and never see the Dawn!

There is more felicity on the far side of baldnes

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There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrag

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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

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