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However low a man sinks he never reaches the level of the police.

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Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

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Decency must be an even more exhausting state to maintain than its opposite. Those who succeed seem to need a stupefying amount of sleep.

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Vice is its own reward. It is virtue which, if it is to be marketed with consumer appeal, must carry Green Shield stamps.

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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

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It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

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The law is simply expediency wearing a long white dress.

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Manners are love in a cool climate.

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Living en famille provides the strongest motives for rudeness combined with the maximum opportunity for displaying it.

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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: December 25th, 1908

Died: November 21st, 1999

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