Its a toss-up when you decide to leave the beaten track. Many are called, few are chosen.
("The Razor's Edge")
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I am told that today rather more than 60 per cent of the men who go to university go on a Government grant. This is a new class that has entered upon the scene. It is the white-collar proletariat. They do not go to university to acquire culture but to get a job, and when they have got one, scamp it. They have no manners and are woefully unable to deal with any social predicament. Their idea of a celebration is to go to a public house and drink six beers. They are mean, malicious and envious . They are scum.
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At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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It is cruel to discover one's mediocrity only when it is too late. It does not improve the temper.
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Men have an extraordinarily erroneous opinion of their position in nature; and the error is ineradicable.
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