Nods and Becks
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“The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are imaginary.”
“I hate the pollyanna pest who says that all is for the best.”
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“An extravagance is something you buy which is no earthly use to your wife.”
“Conscience: A small, still voice that makes minority reports.”
“Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.”
“Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.”
“There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.”
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“Middle age occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.”
“Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”
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“You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.”
“And of all glad words of prose or rhyme, The gladdest are Act while there yet is time”
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“In the order named, these are the hardest to control - wine, women and song.”
“Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes”
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“Accustomed as I am to public speaking, I know the futility of it.”
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“Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.”
“I am easily influenced. Compared with me a weather vane is Gibraltar.”
“If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.”
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