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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
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In the exhaustless catalogue of Heaven's mercies to mankind the power we have of finding some germs of comfort in the hardest trials, must ever occupy the foremost place.
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There is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor.
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Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen six, result happiness.
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A lady of what is commonly called an uncertain temper - a phrase which being interpreted signifies a temper tolerably certain to make everybody more or less uncomfortable.
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A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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A person who can't pay gets another person who can't pay to guarantee that he can pay. Like a person with two wooden legs getting another person with two wooden legs to guarantee that he has got two natural legs. It don't make either of them able to do a walking-match.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.
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Accidents will occur in the best-regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances... in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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Anything for the quick life, as the man said when he took the situation at the lighthouse.
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Because Dickens and Dostoevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.
Source: Liner notes, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6: Bob Dylan Live 1964 (2004) -
Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.
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