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America is a model of force and freedom and moderation - with all the coarseness and rudeness of its people.
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know.
A man of eighty has outlived probably three new schools of painting, two of architecture and poetry and a hundred in dress.
A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.
A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.
A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.
A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and Champagne, the only true feminine and becoming viands.
Absence - that common cure of love.
Adversity is the first path to truth.
Alas! how deeply painful is all payment!