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"Nothing makes a man feel older than to hear a band coming up the street and not to have the impulse to rush downstairs and out on to the sidewalk."
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"Even nowadays a man can't step up and kill a woman without feeling just a bit unchivalrous."
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"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."
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"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."
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