The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.

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Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

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Somehow not only for Christmas
But all the long year through,
The joy that you give to others
Is the joy that comes back to you.

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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.

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The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

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I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

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I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.

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The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.

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Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

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It is easier for a man to be loyal to his club than to his planet; the bylaws are shorter, and he is personally acquainted with the other members.

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