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• I'm not so sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said, "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward for…
• There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to…
• The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky…
• My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he…
• Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in…
• Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
• Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of…
• Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
• The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
• They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate…
• Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
• The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.

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