It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.

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And now that you don't have to be perfect, you can be good.

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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.

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I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

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If you want to destroy a nation, give it too much - make it greedy, miserable and sick.

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To be alive at all is to have scars.

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Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.

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I have noticed that there is no dissatisfaction like that of the rich. Feed a man, clothe him, put him in a good house, and he will die of despair.

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When two people meet, each one is changed by the other so you've got two new people.

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There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean, grasping, egotistical thing which uses love for self-importance. This is the ugly and crippling kind. The other is an outpouring of everything good in you — of kindness and consideration and respect — not only the social respect of manners but the greater respect which is recognition of another person as unique and valuable. The first kind can make you sick and small and weak but the second can release in you strength, and courage and goodness and even wisdom you didn’t know you had.

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