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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
George Jean Nathan
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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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It may be said that artist and censor differ in this wise: that the first is a decent mind in an indecent body and that the second is an indecent mind in a decent body.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.
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It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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I drink so the others become interesting.
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All that is necessary to raise imbecility into what the mob regards as profundity is to lift it off the floor and put it on a platform.
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