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A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions (of which its author had quite probably never heard). It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.
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A Code of Honor: Never approach a friend's girlfriend or wife with mischief as your goal. There are just too many women in the world to justify that sort of dishonorable behavior. Unless she's really attractive.
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A dead end can never be a one way street; you can always turn around and take another road.
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A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
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A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as "robust".
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A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!
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A film is never really any good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
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A first-rate Organizer is never in a hurry. He is never late. He always keeps up his sleeve a margin for the unexpected.
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A fool... is a man who never tried an experiment in his life.
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A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind.
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A gentleman opposed to their enfranchisement once said to me, women have never produced anything of any value to the world. I told him the chief product of the women had been the men, and left it to him to decide whether the product was of any value.
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A gentleman reading a poem that began with Where is that man that never yet did hear
Of fair Penelope, Ulysses' queen? calling his cook, asked if he had ever heard of her, who answering No, demonstrate to him Lo, there the man that never yet did hear
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A good action is never lost; it is a treasure laid up and guarded for the doer's need.
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A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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A guy's who has all the money he needs and never faced any hard times, he won't have any character. But when you've had it tough and you've had it rough and you thought you were at the end of the rope and you work your way out of it, that's the way you build character.
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