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A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman...  
A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death...  
Any real New Yorker is a you-name-it-we-have-it-snob whose heart brims...  
Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surel...  
Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence.  
Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for i...  
If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it o...  
In my estimation, the only thing that is more to be guarded against th...  
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to r...  
It rides horses and is rare in Southern California, except in Pasadena...  
Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.  
The Art Snob can be recognized in the home by the quick look he gives ...  
The bungalow had more to do with how Americans live today than any oth...  
The only gracious way to accept an insult is to ignore it; if you can'...  
The true snob never rests; there is always a higher goal to attain, an...  
There are times when you just get down, you feel like nobody likes you...  
What we are headed for is a sort of social structure in which the high...  
When it gets dark enough you can see the stars.