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| A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. |
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| America is a land where men govern, but women rule. |
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| Among the Round Tablers [at the Algonquin Hotel],Sherwood stood out like a grandfather's clock. The tick of his talk was measured, his words seeming to be spaced by minutes, but when he chimed he struck gaily. |
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| Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on others. |
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| Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little; we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose. |
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| Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe those braggarts who are forever trying to invest themselves with importance by calling important people by their first names in or out of print. Such first-naming for effect makes me cringe. |
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| He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace. |
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| How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that goes around in circles! |
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| I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in any other way. |
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| I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with Blood. |
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| No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing to be in peril for a good cause. |
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| Reasoning with a child is fine, if you can reach the child's reason without destroying your own |
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| She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened by the best but to treat it as part of daily life. |
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| So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies. |
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| Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes. |
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| The comic book [is] the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassinet, the horror of the home, the curse of the kids and a threat to the future. |
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| The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials of action. |
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| The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and the more people I interviewed there, the more I understood how prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid it out as a city that goes around in circles. |
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| The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better. |
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