If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.
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Be wary of passing the judgment: obscure. To find something obscure poses no difficult, elephants and poodles find many things obscure.
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When an acquaintance goes by I often step back from my window, not so much to spare him the effort of acknowledging me as to spare myself the embarrassment of seeing that he has not done so.
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What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.
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