Private information is practically the source of every large, modern fortune.
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Private information is practically the source of every large, modern fortune.
Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.
When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs.
Manners before morals!
Ideas are dangerous things. Reality is better: it hurts one, but it is worth more.
There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new.
Women who have common sense are so curiously plain...
She certainly has a wonderful faculty of remembering people's names and forgetting their faces.
I'm always pleased to know my relatives have been insulted. It is the only link I have with them. Relatives are simply a tedious bunch of people who haven't the slightest idea of how to live, or the slightest inckling for the right time to die.
There is something terribly ungenerous in other people's tragedies.