A lazy person, whatever the talents with which he set out, will have condemned himself to second-hand thoughts and to second-rate friends.
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The only happy talkers are dandies who extract pleasure from the very perishability of their material and who would not be able to tolerate the isolation of all other forms of composition for most good talkers, when they have run down, are miserable they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to dispense it in noises upon the air.Cyril Connolly
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
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The man who is master of his passions is reason's slave
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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.
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Art is an absolute mistress she will not be coquetted with or slighted she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.
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It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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