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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
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"But, in fact, there is nothing that can bring you closer to fearlessness about everything else in the world than being a parent - because everyday fears - like not being approved of - pale by comparison to the fears you have about your children."
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"The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded."
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"Complacency is a state of mind that exists only in retrospective: it has to be shattered before being ascertained."
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"Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position."
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"Now I can go back to being ruthless again."
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"There's a lot of ingredients go into being a good tennis player."
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"I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness."
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"The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it."
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"Being down in Orlando, Florida, where we filmed the movie, I learned how to bass fish. Jerry Reed, who plays the villain in the movie, taught me how to bass fish."
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"Oh, I wish I were a miser; being a miser must be so occupying."
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"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."
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"The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives."
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"There is no need to waste pity on young girls who are having their moments of disillusionment, for in another moment they will recover their illusion."
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"In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness."
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"My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved."
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"Total absence of humor renders life impossible."
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"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
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"Our perfect companions never have fewer than four feet."
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"The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not."
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"A happy childhood is poor preparation for human contacts."
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