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Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

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I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.

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When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.

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It is very easy to love alone.

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This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.

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It is funny the two things most men are proudest of is the thing that any man can do and doing does in the same way, that is being drunk and being the father of their son.

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Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

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Counting is the religion of this generation it is its hope and its salvation.

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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.

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Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.

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There ain't no answer. There ain't gonna be any answer. There never has been an answer. That's the answer.

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A vegetable garden in the beginning looks so promising and then after all little by little it grows nothing but vegetables, nothing, nothing but vegetables.

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In the United States there is more space where nobody is than where anybody is. That is what makes America what it is.

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Very likely education does not make very much difference.

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It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

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We are always the same age inside.

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An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

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Romance is everything.

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Every adolescent has that dream every century has that dream every revolutionary has that dream, to destroy the family.

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A real failure does not need an excuse. It is an end in itself.

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We are always the same age inside.

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