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Promise you won't forget me, ever. Not even when I'm a hundred.
Promise Forget Even Hundred
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And really, it wasn’t much good having anything exciting like floods, if you couldn’t share them with somebody.

Much Good Flood Share
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Good judgment comes from experience, and experience - well, that comes from poor judgment.

Good Come Well Poor
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When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

Stuck River Dive Bank
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Games are won by players who focus on the playing field –- not by those whose eyes are glued to the scoreboard.

Game Focus Won Scoreboard
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You shouldn’t own common stocks if a 50% decrease in their value in a short period of time would cause you acute distress.

Common Stock Value Decrease
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When a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Business Reputation Management Brilliance
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In the long run managements stressing accounting appearance over economic substance usually achieve little of either.

Accounting Economics Management Appearance
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If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But, if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

Hire Dwarf Company People
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I call everyone 'Darling' because I can't remember their names.

Darling Name Everyone Because
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The only way to learn a language properly, in fact, is to marry a man of that nationality. You get what they call in Europe a 'sleeping dictionary.' Of course, I have only been married five times, and

Language Married Nationality Dictionary
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I never really mind what people say about me - I am far too unconventional and far too dedicated to being true to myself to let other people's disdain or nastiness upset me for long.

Disdain People True Mind
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Any woman who diets all the time can't help but be grouchy. Nobody can be amusing or entertaining on a diet.
Woman Amusing Diet Time
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I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.

House Time Keep Marvelous
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I pay all my own bills... I want to choose the man. I do not permit men to choose me.

Bills Choose Want Man
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The truth has to be melted out of our stubborn lives by suffering. Nothing speaks the truth, nothing tells us how things really are, nothing forces us to know what we do not want to know except pain. And this is how the gods declare their love.

Truth Speak. Force Declare
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.

Man Good Enough Memory
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But still the block of Vengeance firm doth stand, and Fate, as swordsmith, hammers blow on blow.

Block Doth Stand Fath
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Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature cannot be changed.

Human Action Extend Nature
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In visions of the night, like dropping rain, descend the many memories of pain.
Vision Night Descend Pain
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So with truth - there is a certain moment when one can say, this is the truth and here I put a dot, a stop, and I go to another thing. A judge has to put an end to a deliberation. But for a historian, there's never an end to the past. It can go on and on and on.

Truth Certain Moment Judge
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Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

Unjustly Hate Death Against
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In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Time Tendency Turn Crisis
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Old men are always young enough to learn.
Old Always Young Learn
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The burning gaze of a young woman, such as hath tasted man, shall not escape me; for I have a spirit keen to mark these things.

Gaze Young Escape Mark
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The gods at will can shape a gladder strain, and from the lamentations at the graveside, a song of triumph may arise.

Shape Strain Song Triumph
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Respect the altar of Justice and do not, looking to profit, dishonor it by spurning with godless foot; for punishment will come upon you.

Respect Altar Profit Foot
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

Can Stand Test Power
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God planteth in mortal men the cause of sin whensoever he wills utterly to destroy a house.

God Mortal Cause Destroy
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I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

Been Wisdom Driven Overwhelming
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One of my theories is that men love with their eyes; women love with their ears.

Love Eyes Women Men
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?

Name Think Remember Anybody
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To a smart girl men are no problem - they're the answer.

Smart Girl Men Problem
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When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Alone Argument Sleep Bed
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I always liked parties. You meet people; you can have fun.

People Fun Like Parties
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The women's movement hasn't changed my sex life. It wouldn't dare.

Movement Woman Sex Dare
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A man dies not for the many wounds that pierce his breast, unless it be that life's end keep pace with death, nor by sitting on his hearth at home doth he the more escape his appointed doom.

Wound Pierce Doth Pace
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The minute I understand a man, he is no longer exciting and a challenge to me. And the last thing in the world I want is for a man to understand me and know what's always going on inside my head. It t

Understand Man Exciting Challenge
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I’m a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn’t have the heart to let him down.

Success Today Friend Heart
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Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.

Come Wait Left Hustle
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.

Easy Keep Spouse Happy
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There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

Time Fear Remain Guardian
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Nor does night conceal men's deeds of ill, but whatsoe'er thou dost, think that some God beholds it.

Night Conceal Think Behold
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Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good.

Human Nature Change Future
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Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

Child Health Soul Dear
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If a man should wanton walk with crime ... he shall find in death no great deliverance.
Walk Crime Death Great
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I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me.
Claim Confess Have Plain
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I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer who remarked to a companion once that ‘it was not best to swap horses while crossing streams’.

Myself Conclude Best Story
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I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain.

Platform Best Bargain Have
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In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free — honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Freedom Preserve Save Earth
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