Nothing so much prevents our being natural as the desire to seem so. – François VI de la Rochefoucault, Maxims
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Panicking in a sandwich shop and allowing a distressingly bizarre combination of fillings to occur. – Rob Temple, @SoVeryBritish (Very British Problems: Making Life Awkward for Ourse
He dare not come in company, for here he should be misused, disgraced, overshoot himself in gesture or speeches or be sick; he thinks everyman observes him. – Richard Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy
My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadnt gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty. – Ian Hislop
Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity. – Hank Nuwer
Every time I sit in the audience and watch a show that I have been involved with, it is such an amazing feeling to see all those people around me, knowing they are actually watching and enjoying something I have written. – Bjorn Ulvaeus
Do I dare set forth here the most important, the most useful rule of all education? It is not to save time, but to squander it. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
