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Someone who gossips well has a reputation for being good company or even a wit, never for being a gossip.
Louis Kronenberger
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Louis Kronenberger
Age: 75 †
Born: 1904
Born: January 1
Died: 1980
Died: January 1
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A great maxim of personal responsibility and mature achievement: Do it yourself is now the enthroned cliche for being occupied with nonessentials.
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Educated people do indeed speak the same languages cultivated ones need not speak at all.
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It is the gossip columnist's business to write about what is none of his business.
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
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Doubtless a good general rule for close friendships, where confidences are freely exchanged, is that what one is not informed about, one may not inquire about.
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The truly ambitious are always as busy on the landings as they are breathless on the stairs.
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Today's competitiveness, so much imposed from without, is exhausting, not exhilarating is unending-a part of one's social life, one's solitude, one's sleep, one's sleeplessness.
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For young people today things move so fast there is no problem of adjustment. Before you can adjust to A, B has appeared leading C by the hand, and with D in the distance.
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On any morning these days whole segments of the population wake up to find themselves famous, while, to keep matters shipshape, whole contingents of celebrities wake up to find themselves forgotten.
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Life for most of us is full of steep stairs to go up and later, shaky stairs to totter down and very early in the history of stairs must have come the invention of bannisters.
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Once you have money, you can quite truthfully affirm that money isn't everything.
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The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told.
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Privacy was in sufficient danger before TV appeared, and TV has given it its death blow.
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The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination.
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The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being the American wants to be considered a good guy.
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The life of sense begins by assuming that we can only fitfully live the life of reason.
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A perfect conversation would run much less to brilliant sentences than to unfinished ones.
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