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Why It Is That A Garment Which Is Honestly Attractive In, Say, 1910 Should Be Honestly Ridiculous A Few Years Later And Honestly Charming Again A Few Years Later Still Is One Of Those Things Which Are Not Satisfactorily To Be Explained And Are Therefore Jolly And Exciting And An Addition To The Perennial Interest Of Life.

He Did Not Arrive At This Conclusion By The Decent Process Of Quiet, Logical Deduction, Nor Yet By The Blinding Flash Of Glorious Intuition, But By The Shoddy, Untidy Process Halfway Between The Two By Which One Usually Gets To Know Things.

Waiting Is One Of The Great Arts.

Of All The Band Of Personal Traitors The Sense Of Humor Is The Most Dangerous.

Self-satisfaction Is The State Of Mind Of Those Who Have The Happy Conviction That They Are Not As Other Men.