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| I can believe anything, provided that it is quite incredible. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I don't play accurately-any one can play accurately- but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I have the simplest of tastes. I am always satisfied with the best. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I must decline your invitation owing to a subsequent engagement. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I sometimes think that God, in creating man, overestimated His ability. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I suppose that I shall have to die beyond my means. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| I was asked by the customs if I had anything to declare. I said: Yes, I'd like to declare -- I'm a genius! | | Wisdom and Ignorance | | |
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| I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| If England treats her criminals the way she has treated me, she doesn't deserve to have any. | | Uncategorized | | |
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| Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. | | Uncategorized | | |
