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"There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth."

"A golf course is the epitome of all that is purely transitory in the universe; a space not to dwell in, but to get over as quickly as possible."

"I have been a woman for fifty years, and I've never yet been able to discover precisely what it is I am."

"Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom."

"There is an invisible garment woven around us from our earliest years; it is made of the way we eat, the way we walk, the way we greet people."

"It's odd how people waiting for you stand out far less clearly than people you are waiting for."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."

"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."

"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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