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The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.


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I don't judge people by their bodies. Even when I was a young girl I liked men for their minds. Now that I'm middle-aged I see how right I was.



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I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.

I feel that I have done everything, absolutely everything wrong, but perhaps something nice will happen anyway.



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Voting is one of the few things where boycotting in protest clearly makes the problem worse rather than better.



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It may be true that the government that governs best governs least Unfortunately, the same is also true of the government that governs worst.



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A guardian angel comes when you are very young, and gives you special dispensation. From what? From the world. Yours might be luck. Mine is money.



Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.

Sometimes when a man gets older he has a revelation and wants awfully bad to get back to the place where he left his life, but he can't get to that place- not often.



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Sisterly love is one of the few boons in this life.



I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.

I think that anything you feel strange or nervous about, you weren't cut out to do.



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Victory fades so quickly that it is scarcely apparent and it is always the face of defeat that we are able to see.





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