Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
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Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
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His father, Vincent, took him to La Coupole in Paris and, after sitting on the terrace for a while, walked off and forgot him. It was the perfect start in life for a writer.
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When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
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