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if you are perfectly willing to shock an individual verbally, the next thing you will be doing is to shock him practically.

Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Originality usually amounts only to plagiarizing something unfamiliar.
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What passes for an original opinion is, generally, merely an original phrase. Old lamps for new - yes but it is always the same oil in the lamp.
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... it is a great mistake to confuse conventionality with simplicity ... it takes a good deal of intelligence and a great many inhibitions to follow a social code.
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