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- Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
- Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 - 1946)
- Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a newly married couple.
- Charles Lamb (1775 - 1834)
- All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Self is the only prison that can bind the soul.
- Henry Van Dyke
- A painter should not paint what he sees but what should be seen.
- Paul Valery (1871 - 1945)
- As an anti-American, I thank you for your rotten article devoted to my person.
- Prince Sihanouk in a letter to Time magazine
- If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank.
- Woody Allen (1935 - )
- Never get married while you're going to college; it's hard to get a start if a prospective employer finds you've already made one mistake.
- Kin Hubbard (1868 - 1930)
- I have never found in a long experience of politics that criticism is ever inhibited by ignorance.
- Harold Macmillan (1894 - 1986), British prime minister (1957-1963)
- Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
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