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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, deprecating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way.

Men have ascribed to God imperfections that they would deplore in themselves.

The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous; on the contrary it makes them, for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Tolerance is another word for indifference.

Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.