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"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
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"An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her."
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"Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine."
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"There was a moment when I changed from an amateur to a professional. I assumed the burden of a profession, which is to write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you're writing, and aren't writing particularly well."
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"The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again."
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"In any profession it gets to be a grind."
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"Modeling is a profession where your worth is tied up with looks."
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"Actresses are nightmares. I don't hang out with any of them. That's a problem with my profession. I try not to be like an actress."
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"Doctors is all swabs."
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"The stage lost a fine actor, even as science lost an acute reasoner, when [Holmes] became a specialist in crime."
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"So I'm in quite the wrong profession obviously."
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"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old

"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship

"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
Food

"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
Politics

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."
Power

"The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post."
Love

"You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live."
Life

"A man never tells you anything until you contradict him."
Man

"Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity."
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