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"Prayer, among sane people, has never superseded practical efforts to secure the desired end."
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"In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can't read. If they could read their stuff, they'd stop writing."
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"It is not actual suffering but the taste of better things which excites people to revolt."
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"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."
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"When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
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"I believe that in every country the people themselves are more peaceably and liberally inclined than their governments."
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"Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing."
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"You can stroke people with words."
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"One-third of the people in the United States promote, while the other two-thirds provide."
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"Self-interest makes some people blind, and others sharp-sighted."
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"I wanted to write something that would be a comedy in the sense of making people feel happier when they finish it than they did when began it."
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"Fun is a good thing but only when it spoils nothing better."
Fun
"When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different."
Man
"There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval."
Death
"The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age."
Age
"Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots."
Friendship
"Happiness is the only sanction of life; where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment."
Happiness
"The word experience is like a shrapnel shell, and bursts into a thousand meanings."
Experience
"Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are."
Intelligence
"The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity."
Imagination
"Language is like money, without which specific relative values may well exist and be felt, but cannot be reduced to a common denominator."
Money
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