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Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.

— Edward St. Aubyn

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Of course it was wrong to want to change people, but what else could you possibly want to do with them?

What is a strain is being forced into the lobster pot of good behaviour while being forced to sing its praises.

It must be hard to be exclusively social and entirely friendless at the same time.

No man is an island — although one’s known a surprising number who own one.

The tragedy of old age, when a man’s too weak to hit his own child.

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