"Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever."

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"Every cloud has its silver lining but it is sometimes a little difficult to get it to the mint"

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"A fierce unrest seethes at the core, of all existing things:, it was the eager wish to soar, that gave the gods their wings."

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"I would rather start a family than finish one."

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"Fishing is a delusion entirely surrounded by liars in old clothes."

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"Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness."

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"Some persons are likable in spite of their unswerving integrity."

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"Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control."

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"An idea is not responsible for the people who believe in it."

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"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."

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"We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with."

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"a man thinks he amounts to a great deal but to a flea or a mosquito a human being is merely something good to eat"

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"I get up in the morning with an idea for a three-volume novel and by nightfall it's a paragraph in my column."

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"now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody else."

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"There is nothing so habit-forming as money."

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"An optimist is a man who has never had much experience."

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"In order to influence a child, one must be careful not to be that child's parent or grandparent."

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"A pessimist is a person who has had to listen to too many optimists."

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"Writing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo."

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"Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind."

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"Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong."

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"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."

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"prohibition makes you want to cry into your beer and denies you the beer to cry into"

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"Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates."

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"Science has always been too dignified to invent a good backscratcher."

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"Successful people are the ones who think up things for the rest of the world to keep busy at."

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"Ours is a world where people don't know what they want and are willing to go through hell to get it."

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"Blood will tell, but often it tells too much."

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"Bores bore each other too; but it never seems to teach them anything."

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"Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours is the zest of the alley cat"

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"If you make people think they're thinking they'll love you: but if you really make them think, they'll hate you."

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"When you can't have anything else, you can have virtue."

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"He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in the country."

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"When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him whose?"

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"I never think when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them well."

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"what man calls civilizationalways results in desertsman is never on the squarehe uses up the fat and greenery of the eartheach generation wastes a little moreof the future with greed and lust for riches"

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"Between the years of ninety-two and a hundred and two, however, we shall be the ribald, useless, drunken, outcast person we have always wished to be. We shall have a long white beard and long white hair; we shall not walk at all, but recline in a wheel chair and bellow for alcoholic beverages; in the winter we shall sit before the fire with our feet in a bucket of hot water, a decanter of corn whiskey near at hand, and write ribald songs against organized society; strapped to one arm of our chair will be a forty-five calibre revolver, and we shall shoot out the lights when we want to go to sleep, instead of turning them off; when we want air we shall throw a silver candlestick through the front window and be damned to it; we shall address public meetings in a vein of jocund malice. We shall but we dont wish to make any one envious of the good time that is coming to us We look forward to a disreputable, vigorous, unhonoured, and disorderly old age. "

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"ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather start a family thanfinish one blood will tell but oftenit tells too much"

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