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Good general-purpose manners nowadays may be said to consist in knowing how much you can get away with.


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When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.



Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

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We are minor in everything but our passions.

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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

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It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

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