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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.

Passion Borders Chaos Chaotic
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Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away.

Away Bird Boredom Dream
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Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell. He has borrowed his authority from death.

Authority Borrowed Death Everything
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Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Armed Work Conviction Leap
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The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.

Character Destructive Feeling Life
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All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Form Human Interpretation Knowledge
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He who observes etiquette but objects to lying is like someone who dresses fashionably but wears no vest.

Dresses Etiquette Like Lying
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An inability to stay quiet is one of the conspicuous failings of mankind.

Conspicuous Failings Inability Mankind
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Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

Anomaly Bell Difficult Dinner
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Woman absent is woman dead.

Absent Dead Woman
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.

Commerce Honor Long Prevails
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.

Good Temptations Vices Without
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Admiring Cure House Look
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An influential member of parliament has not only to pay much money to become such, and to give time and labour, he has also to sacrifice his mind too - at least all the characteristics part of it that which is original and most his own.

Mind Time Labour Original
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A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Big People Idle Less
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The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Reason Strong Intelligible World
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The being without an opinion is so painful to human nature that most people will leap to a hasty opinion rather than undergo it.

Being Hasty Human Leap
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

Bad Dullness Excellence Good
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No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

Secret Death Real Soul
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One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

Greatest Human Idea Nature
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Conquest is the missionary of valor, and the hard impact of military virtues beats meanness out of the world.

Beats Conquest Hard Impact
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

Spectacle Agent Simply Also
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An element of exaggeration clings to the popular judgment: great vices are made greater, great virtues greater also; interesting incidents are made more interesting, softer legends more soft.

Element Soft Great Virtues
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

Ruled Often Truer Governed
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The whole history of civilization is strewn with creeds and institutions which were invaluable at first, and deadly afterwards.

First Deadly Invaluable Whole
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A slight daily unconscious luxury is hardly ever wanting to the dwellers in civilization; like the gentle air of a genial climate, it is a perpetual minute enjoyment.

Slight Gentle Luxury Air
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Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

Victims Women Advances Become
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Almost every man wastes part of his life attempting to display qualities which he does not possess.

Almost Attempting Display Does
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.

Best Certain Every Marked
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Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven't courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

Any Because Courage Greatest
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

Compared Consider Done He
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Even Fondness Kindness Our
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Whoever thinks of going to bed before twelve o'clock is a scoundrel.

Bed Before Going Scoundrel
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
Art Pleasure Poetry Truth
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Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

Given Law Little Much
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Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

Certain Characteristics Curiosity Intellect
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If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in a constant repair.

Acquaintances Advances Alone Constant
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What is easy is seldom excellent.
Easy Excellent Seldom
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A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

Aim Ambition Cannot Cured
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In America they really do mythologise people when they die.

America Die People Really
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Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started.

Got Internet Look Started
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You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

Better Dangerous Forget Idea
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The idea of having a steady job is appealing.
Appealing Having Idea Job
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Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet.

Alimony Call Changed Divorce
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Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party.

Apartment Canada Great Like
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A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills - no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while.

Bad Bomb Feel Make
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I've had a lot of people tell me they watched 'Old Dogs' with their kids and had a good time.
Dogs Good Good Time Had
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Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

Make Money Movie Sometimes
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In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

Comedy Deeply Doing Find
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Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma.

Cathartic Comedy Deal Personal
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