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No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.James Branch Cabell
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I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.James Branch Cabell
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Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrongJames Branch Cabell
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That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.James Branch Cabell
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...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.James Branch Cabell
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Our sole concern with the long dead is aestheticJames Branch Cabell
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Alcohol played the midwifeJames Branch Cabell
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The optimist claims we live in the best of all possible worlds and the pessimist fears this is true.James Branch Cabell
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There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.James Branch Cabell
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Patriotism is the religion of hell.James Branch Cabell