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After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
The Remains of the Day (2009) 244 -
After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
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After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and a man's so dull that he can look right through his wife without seeing her.
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After ten years of word processing, I can't even do hand writing anymore.
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After you've done all the work and prepared as much as you can, what the hell, you might as well go out and have a good time.
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Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.
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Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.
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Against the beautiful and the clever and the successful, one can wage a pitiless war, but not against the unattractive: then the millstone weighs on the breast.
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Age is only a number, a cipher for the records. A man can't retire his experience. He must use it. Experience achieves more with less energy and time.
On his 85th birthday. UPI News Report, August 20, 1955Bernard M. Baruch
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Age to me means nothing. I can't get old; I'm working. I was old when I was twenty-one and out of work. As long as you're working, you stay young. When I'm in front of an audience, all that love and vitality sweeps over me and I forget my age.
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Ages when custom is unsettled are necessarily ages of prophecy. The moralist cannot teach what is revealed; he must reveal what can be taught. He has to seek insight rather than to preach.
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Ah, Eugénie, have done with virtues! Among the sacrifices that can be made to those counterfeit divinities, is there one worth an instant of the pleasures one tastes in outraging them?
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Ah, nowadays we are all of us so hard up, that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They’re the only things we can pay.
Lady Windermere’s Fan (1893) First act -
Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' - I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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Alas! they had been friends in youth; but whispering tongues can poison truth.
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All a work of art can do is present the surface. I can't know the insides of people. I know very little about the inside of myself.
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All along the untrodden paths of the future, I can see the footprints of an unseen hand.
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All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another!
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