An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

Booth Tarkington in Penrod (1914)
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously; and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.

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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

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