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To get into the best society nowadays one has either to feed people amuse people or shock people.

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We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces

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Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels ins...more

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Society--civilized society, at least--is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels in...more

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Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

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The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it. The systems that fail ar...more