One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.
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In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.
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I am not young enough to know everything.
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The old believe everything: the middle-aged suspect everything: the young know everything.
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You are perfectly right in making some slight alteration. Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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Die Welt ist von Narren geschaffen, damit Weise in ihr Leben.
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Indeed, no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.
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But youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms.
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Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistake...
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People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course, they are ch...
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But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.
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For the recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses.
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The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.
