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Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and

Keeping up with the Joneses was a full-time job with my mother and father. It was not until many years later when I lived alone that I realized how much cheaper it was to drag the Joneses down to my level. – Quentin Crisp

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The young always have the same problem — how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. – Quentin Crisp

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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses. – Quentin Crisp

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