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“What is missing in him is probably necessary for what is missing in you. Let us not to the marriage of true impediments admit minds.”
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“A politician is forced to make a habit of noble phrases and optimistic lies. In the end they infect himself.”
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“Screening telephone calls with a receptionist or the humbler answering machine is not a dishonorable thing to do. The warmest people in the world still need uninterrupted time to attend to their lives and should not be outwitted if they have made it obvious that they are not always available upon summons.”
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“I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm beyond ninety. Then it is better that she be candid with herself and with the world.”
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“The hardest thing in life is to discover the exact geographical location of a man's grouch — whether it is in his tooth, his vanity or his digestion, or is just a chronic condition of the whole system.”
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“Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence.”
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“No public character can escape without criticism, just and unjust ...”
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“Life is creation. Self and circumstances the raw material.”