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- In an age when the fashion is to be in love with yourself, confessing to be in love with somebody else is an admission of unfaithfulness to one's beloved.
- Russell Baker (1925 - )
- May God defend me from my friends; I can defend myself from my enemies.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
- No doubt Jack the Ripper excused himself on the grounds that it was human nature.
- A.A. Milne
- A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- Money is good for bribing yourself through the inconveniences of life.
- Gottfried Reinhardt
- Critic, n. A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
- Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914), The Devil's Dictionary
- Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)
- He who despises himself esteems himself as a self-despiser.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- After all, what is your hosts' purpose in having a party? Surely not for you to enjoy yourself; if that were their sole purpose, they'd have simply sent champagne and women over to your place by taxi.
- P. J. O'Rourke (1947 - )
- A clergyman is one who feels himself called upon to live without working at the expense of the rascals who work to live.
- Voltaire (1694 - 1778)
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