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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature. ”
A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. ”
There are strings in the human heart that had better not be vibrated. ”
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. ”
Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine. ”
Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say. ”
It's possible to love a human being if you don't know them too well. ”
I do not like the human race. I don't like their heads, I don't like their faces, I don't like their feet, I don't like their conversations, I don't like their hairdos, I don't like their automobiles. ”
Even though I write about the human race, the further away from them, the better I feel. Two miles is great; two thousand miles is beautiful. ”
One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor but nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity. ”