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What people want, above all, is order.

A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.

Excessive literary production is a social offense.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it.

Here Fashion is a despot, and no one dreams of evading its dictates.