A human being must have occupation, of he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
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As I grow older and older, And totter toward the tomb, I find that I care less and less, Who goes to bed with whom.
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Every time a man expects, as he says, his money to work for him, he is expecting other people to work for him.
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Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.
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If it were not for the war, this war would suit me down to the ground.
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Lawyers enjoy a little mystery, you know. Why, if everybody came forward and told the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth straight out, we should all retire to the workhouse.
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She always says, my lord, that facts are like cows. If you look them in the face hard enough they generally run away.
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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.
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The great advantage about telling the truth is that nobody ever believes it.
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The only sin passion can commit is to be joyless.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Trouble shared is trouble halved.
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