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It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners. But drowning would help. - "Marienbad--A Health Factory," Europe and Elsewhere, 1923 Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person. - Notebook, 1898

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of graceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.
- On the Decay of the Art of Lying speech, 1880

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