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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labour.
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I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.
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The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally.
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Why was I born with such contemporaries?
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In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.
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Everything popular is wrong.
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I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.
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It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one’s back, that are absolutely and entirely true.
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One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
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There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating – people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.
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