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Gossip is never fatal until it is denied.
Booth Tarkington / Novelist
Denied
Gossip
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Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth.
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Imagine
Romance
Youth
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Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.
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Doe
Personality
Style
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Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous.
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Destiny
Fate
Passion
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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
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Anger
Arguing
Argument
Opinion
People
Confirm
Opinions
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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
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Inspirational
Marriage
Wedding
Husband
Wife
Woman
Ideal
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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
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Happiness
Happy
Long
Loses
Possess
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Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them.
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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
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Birthday
Happy
Age
Cherish
Fine
Moments
Old Age
Make
Cushion
Old
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Christmas day is the children's, but the holidays are youth's dancing-time.
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Christmas
Smile
Children
Dancing
Holiday
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Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either.
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Mouths
Names
Silly
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The only good in pretending is the fun we get out of fooling ourselves that we fool somebody.
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Fool
Fun
Pretending
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The understanding smile of an old wife to her husband is one of the loveliest things in the world.
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Love
Husband
Wife
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink
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Men
Drinking
Taken
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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
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Believed
Whatsoever
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The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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Desire
Female
Males
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Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.
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Men
Sheep
Shepherds
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There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!
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Gone
Old Time
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Take your work seriously but never take yourself seriously and do not take what happens either to yourself or your work seriously.
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Experience
Happens
Seriousness
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It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality.
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Quality
Age
Mean
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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.
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Female
Rebuke
Safe
Male
Desires
Scornful
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This is a boy's lot: anything he does, anything whatever, may afterward turn out to have been a crime - he never knows. And punishment and clemency are alike inexplicable.
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Boys
Doe
Punishment
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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.
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Boyhood
Boys
Decades
Millennium
School
Term
Waiting
Years
Life Time Waiting
Life Time Living
Weeks
Longest
Longest Time
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One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations for every natural act.
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Boyhood
Invention
Natural
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Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady.
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Apples
Important
Law
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The things that we have and that we think are so solid - they're like smoke, and time is like the sky that the smoke disappears into, nothing is left but the sky, and the sky keeps on being just the same forever.
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Sky
Spiritual
Thinking
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Superciliousness is not safe after all, because a person who forms the habit of wearing it may some day find his lower lip grown permanently projected beyond the upper, so that he can't get it back, and must go through life looking like the King of Spain.
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Kings
Book
Spain
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I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization -- that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.
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Men
Civilization
Spiritual
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They were upon their great theme: "When I get to be a man!" Being human, though boys, they considered their present estate too commonplace to be dwelt upon. So, when the old men gather, they say: "When I was a boy!" It really is the land of nowadays that we never discover.
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Men
Boys
Land
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Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!
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Angel
Mother
Son
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My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals.
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Home
Believe
Book
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No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.
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Heart
Heaven
People
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Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred.
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Gossip
Ninety Nine
People
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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 civilization-that is, spiritual civilization ... But automobiles have come, and they bring a greater change in our life than most of us expect. They are here, and almost all outward things are going to be different because of what they bring. They are going to alter war, and they are going to alter peace.
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Change
War
Spiritual
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