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John Updike Quotes: Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.
         

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.


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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant of a teacher and a learner.
         



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A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.



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The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.



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It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.



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So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.





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