Quote #57

Respect movements, flee schools.

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  1. It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.
  2. Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.
  3. If an addict who has been completely cured starts smoking again he no longer experiences the discomfort of his first addiction. There exist…
  4. People would say to Al Brown: 'You are not a boxer. You are a dancer.' He laughed at this, and won.
  5. There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.
  6. Do not take up cause against the inaccuracies printed about you. They are your protection.
  7. If a hermit lives in a state of ecstasy, his lack of comfort becomes the height of comfort. He must relinquish it.
  8. Be a constant outrage to modesty There is nothing to fear: modesty is exercised only among the blind.

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