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"A touch of love makes everything better."
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"Pleasure resorts are like film stars and royalty... embarrassed by the figures they cut in the fantasies of people who have never met them."

"What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better."

"Borrowing is not much better than begging; just as lending with interest is not much better than stealing."

"There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best."

"The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion."

"Any human anywhere will blossom in a hundred unexpected talents and capacities simply by being given the opportunity to do so."

"In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools."

"That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life, but in a new way."
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