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- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
- Anatole France (1844 - 1924), The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
- Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
- Edith Sitwell (1887 - 1964)
- Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one.
- A. J. Liebling (1904 - 1963)
- A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
- Jane Austen (1775 - 1817), Mansfield Park
- An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are.
- Nicholas Chamfort (1741 - 1794)
- All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
- Cyril Connolly (1903 - 1974), Enemies of Promise (1938)
- The visionary lies to himself, the liar only to others.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
- We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
- Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662)
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