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The writer's Queen Victoria is his public, and he would do well to keep a bust of the old Queen on his desk with the legend "We are not amused" hanging from it.

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Those who are addicted to the phrase "to use a vulgarism" expect to achieve the feat of being at once vulgar and superior to vulgarity.

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It need hardly be said that shortness is a merit in words.

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Those who run to long words are mainly the unskillful and tasteless; they confuse pomposity with dignity, flaccidity with ease, and bulk with force.

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You have to live your life according to what comforts you, not what the rest of your family thinks you ought to be doing.

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Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we are born.

- Albert Einstein

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Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.

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Keep in mind that the true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

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Life is a journey, not a destination.

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