I find nothing more depressing than optimism.

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The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.

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The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower your class.

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The worst thing about war was the sitting around and wondering what you were doing morally.

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If you are an author and give one of your books to a member of the upper class, you must never expect him to read it.

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Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles.

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Most Americans, in their sweet innocence, think that class has to do with money. But a glance at Donald Trump and Leona Helmsley will indicate that it has very little to do with money. It has to do with taste and style, and it has to do with the development of those features by acts of character.

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