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"Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you."
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"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."

"People are always good company when they are doing what they really enjoy."

"Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have."

"Clinton... believes that the Washington Press Corps is so out of touch that it is absolutely inconceivable that reporters would understand the issues that people are really dealing with in their lives."
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"The mere process of growing old together will make our slightest acquaintances seem like bosom friends."

"The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists."

"I can't forgive my friends for dying; I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing."

"We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once."

"There is one thing that matters, to set a chime of words tinkling in the minds of a few fastidious people."

"Hearts that are delicate and kind and tongues that are neither - these make the finest company in the world."

"Many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares, were there a danger of their coming true!"
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