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"At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely."
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"I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
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"Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven."
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"So I think we're, we're, we're as broad a political party, if not broader than the Democratic Party, just in a different political spectrum."
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"Tool of Communist agitators... it's really a joke, isn't it? Because, quite clearly, we are a party of real moderates. It just shows how little they understand."
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"The formal Washington dinner party has all the spontaneity of a Japanese imperial funeral."
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"The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move."
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"I belong to no organized party. I am a Democrat."
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"Well, it was alleged that he was a member of the Communist Party."
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"The Republican Party is not inclusive."
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"The party currently is about fund-raising and occasionally blasting out ads."
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"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties."
Trouble
"The crown of literature is poetry."
Poetry
"What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French literature."
Life
"It's no good trying to keep up old friendships. It's painful for both sides. The fact is, one grows out of people, and the only thing is to face it."
People
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing."
Home
"We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits."
Friendship
"When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character."
Character
"I made up my mind long ago that life was too short to do anything for myself that I could pay others to do for me."
Life
"It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent."
Work
"It is not true that suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive."
Happiness
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