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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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Only the shallow know themselves.
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A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.
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The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.
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Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.
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Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
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An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn’t so, life wouldn’t be worth living.
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I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
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I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.
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Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
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