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A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.
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A man must serve his time to every trade save censure - critics all are ready made.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
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A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry, a hundred in dress.
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A man only learns in two ways, one by reading, and the other by association with smarter people.
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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
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A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others.
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A man who publishes his letters becomes a nudist - nothing shields him from the world's gaze except his bare skin. A writer, writing away, can always fix himself up to make himself more presentable, but a man who has written a letter is stuck with it for all time.
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A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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A metaphysician is one who, when you remark that twice two makes four, demands to know what you mean by twice, what by two, what by makes, and what by four. For asking such questions metaphysicians are supported in oriental luxury in the universities, and respected as educated and intelligent men.
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A movie and a stage show are two entirely different things. A picture, you can do anything you want. Change it, cut out a scene, put in a scene, take a scene out. They don't do that on stage.
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A peasant becomes fond of his pig and is glad to salt away its pork. What is significant, and is so difficult for the urban stranger to understand, is that the two statements are connected by an and not by a but.
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A person is always startled when he hears himself called old for the first time.
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A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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A poem may be an instance of morality, of social conditions, of psychological history; it may instance all its qualities, but never one of them alone, nor any two or three; never less than all.
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