"Every group of six or more has its inner circle, its outer circle, and its hangers-on."

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“The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.”

“The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore.”

“We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?”

“A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.”

“The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

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