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Our desires always increase with our possessions. The knowledge that something remains yet unenjoyed impairs our enjoyment of the good before us. We should keep the Panama Canal. After all we stole it fair and square. An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable. The ideal never comes. Today is ideal for him who makes it so. Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem. Divorce is a game played by lawyers. Revolutions are not made; they come. If you want something done right, get someone else to do it. All men are liable to error; and most men are ... by passion or interest, under temptation to it. He who can lick can bite. Pardon, not wrath, is God's best attribute. I remember when I got married. I remember where I got married. But for the life of me, I can't remember why I got married. Everyone lives by selling something. Better is half a loaf than no bread. The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error. It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone. The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. Everyone carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels. Behind every successful man you'll find a woman who has nothing to wear. Thou, oh my country, hast thy foolish ways, Too apt to purr at every stranger's praise.
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