If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?

If someone tries to use you as a tool, you shouldn't mind it, because it is their choice and folly, not yours.

Society can only hurt if you care for its opinion

That's the way girls are isn't it? They swear eternal friendship, and then as soon as a man's in the case it's all forgotten.

None of us like to think we are silly. But all must acknowledge that they are capable of silliness, from time to time

I am no faint-heart when it comes to the unpleasant truth. Indeed I have always taken a bracing sort of pleasure in facing it.