If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.
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Society
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years. To hear them talk one would imagine they were in their first childhood. As far as civilisation goes they are in their second.
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Good people do a great deal of harm in this world. Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance.
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If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.
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The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public.
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American women are wonderfully clever in concealing their parents as much as English women are good at concealing their past.
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American women always take the best bachelors. Why can't they stay in their own country? They are always telling us it is the Paradise for women... That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so eager to get out of it.
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Never speak disrespectfully of Society. Only people who can't get into it do that.
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Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realise what it has done.
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