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• You can't learn too soon that the most useful thing about a principle is that it can always be sacrificed to expediency.
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• Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. -- W. Somerset Maugham
• Marriage is a very good thing, but I think it's a mistake to make a habit out of it.
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• Money is the sixth sense that makes it possible to enjoy the five others.
• Life is too short to do anything for oneself that one can pay others to do for one.
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• You are not angry with people when you laugh at them.
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