The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.

Russell Lynes

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No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be... by Russell Lynes

No author dislikes to be edited as much as he dislikes not to be published.

editing writing art

It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.

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Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing. by Russell Lynes

Brains aren't everything. In fact in your case they're nothing.

insults-you insulting wise

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort tod... by Russell Lynes

Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?

sarcastic stupid wise

If you can't ignore an insult, top it; if you can't top it, laugh it off; and if you can't laugh it off, it's probably deserved.

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A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman. by Russell Lynes

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

behave gentleman men

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given yo... by Russell Lynes

Anybody who told you to be yourself simply couldn't have given you worse advice.

insults-you being-yourself wise

Friends never make assumptions about you. They never expect a reason to go out with you. In fact friends only expect you to be you.

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Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will n... by Russell Lynes

Tennis is an addiction that once it has truly hooked a man will not let him go.

tennis addiction men

Cynicism is the intellectual cripple's substitute for intelligence. It is the dishonest businessman's substitute for conscience. It is the communicator's substitute, whether he is advertising man or editor or writer, for self-respect.

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Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.

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The world of the arts is by no means always comfortable, but neither is it likely ever to be boring. It is full of surprises, humor, traps for the unwary, and challenges to smugness. It is a world of moods as well as of revelation, of beliefs and fears, of unpleasant truth as well as of delicious fantasy. Perhaps it is arrogant to say that anyone who does not venture into this world is only half-interested in life. I say it, nonetheless.

challenges mean art

A lady is nothing very specific. One man's lady is another man's woman; sometimes, one man's lady is another man's wife. Definitions overlap but they almost never coincide.

definitions wife men

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you? by Russell Lynes

Hi there, I'm a human being! What are you?

insult humans wise

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong. by Russell Lynes

I'd agree with you, but then we'd both be wrong.

cool-status agree wise

Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on i... by Russell Lynes

Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.

sarcastic wise mind

A truly appreciative child will break, lose, spoil, or fondle to death any really successful gift within a matter of minutes.

parenting successful children

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly? by Russell Lynes

Shouldn't you have a license for being that ugly?

insult ugly wise

I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works. by Russell Lynes

I don't know what makes you so dumb but it really works.

insults-you sarcastic wise

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people. by Russell Lynes

Calling you an idiot would be an insult to all the stupid people.

stupid wise people