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“He did not speak again till just before he died, when he kissed his wife's hand with singular tenderness and called her 'Elizabeth.' She had been christened Augusta Frederica; but then, as the doctors explained, dying men often make these mistakes.”
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“ Mothers-in-law do not make good house pets. Once I had the most wonderful dream — I dreamed that mothers-in-law cost money and I couldn't afford one.”
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“... if you listen too hard to the technology, your ear goes deaf to its implications.”
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“When people told me that I knew nothing of reality I answered that reality was my greatest enemy, that I had fought it — successfully — all my life.”
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“Englishwomen's shoes look as if they had been made by someone who had often heard shoes described, but had never seen any ... ”
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“Comedy is very controlling — you are making people laugh. It is there in the phrase 'making people laugh.' You feel completely in control when you hear a wave of laughter coming back at you that you have caused.”
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“There's a couple of universal principles in life. One is, don't ever open a restaurant. One out of every two fails.”
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“It really seems as if failure and hardship make more of a human being of folks than success.”