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"The real beauty of a house is always the happiness inside that house!"

"We grow up opposing our parents only to become like them enough to oppose our children who behave as we once did-a reminder of how dreadful we were toward those now vindicated grandparents. And you thought God had no sense of humor."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."

"I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well."

"Other men wear white suits in summer and it doesn't seem to bother them. But my white suit seems to be a little whiter than theirs. I think also that it may have something written on the back of it, although I can't find it when I take the suit off."

"We call ourselves a free nation, and yet we let ourselves be told what cabs we can and can't take by a man at a hotel door, simply because he has a drum major's uniform on."

"A great many people have come up to me and asked how I manage to get so much work done and still keep looking so dissipated."

"In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop."

"It took me fifteen years to discover I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous."

"You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had a little sense knocked into it."

"Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, owing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about."
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