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“[On farming:] It's a pleasanter way of losing money than most.”
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“She was one of those fortunate persons who can make listeners believe that they have achieved something by merely talking about it. Lucy could somehow make an overdue bill seem more creditable to her than many a woman could a bank-account. She was amazingly glib ... ”
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“... there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out.”
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“More and more I am certain that the only difference between man and animals is that men can count and animals cannot and if they count they mostly do count money ...”
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“Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.”
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“[Good taste] is a nineteenth-century concept. And good taste has never really been defined. The effort of projecting 'good taste' is so studied that it offends me. No, I prefer to negate that. We have to put a period to so-called good taste.”
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“... entertainment for entertainment's sake is the most expensive form of death ...”
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“It is a cowardly abuse of power to ill-treat a child.”