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By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation.
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards read more
Never support two weaknesses at the same time. It's your combination sinners -- your lecherous liars and your miserly drunkards -- who dishonor the vices and bring them into bad repute.
Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
Vice is such a hideous creature, that the more you see of it the better you like it.
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother read more
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three or four of her friends. . . told stories. . . with effortless art and technique. They were natural-born storytellers in the oral tradition.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
Hate no one; hate their vices, not themselves.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
The greatest minds are capable of the greatest vices as well as of the greatest virtues.
His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.
His was the sort of career that made the Recording Angel think seriously about taking up shorthand.
