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To say that a man is vain means merely that he is pleased with the effect he produces on other people. A conceited man is satisfied with the effect he produces on himself.
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
"After all," as a pretty girl once said to me, "women are a sex by themselves, so to speak."
The past is a work of art, full of irrelevancies and loose ends.
It seems to be a law of nature that no man ever is loth to sit for his portrait.
Not that I had any special reason for hating school. Strange as it may seem to my readers, I was not unpopular there. I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
Mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
She was one of the people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."
