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It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

—Mark Twain

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The nice thing about being a celebrity is that when you bore people, they think it's their fault.

—Henry Kissinger

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It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

—Douglas Adams

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As for me, except for an occasional heart attack, I feel as young as I ever did.

—Robert Benchley

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I no longer prepare food or drink with more than one ingredient.

—Cyra McFadden

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Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.

—Halifax

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Success - keeping your mind awake and your desire asleep.

—Walter Scott

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When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

—William Shakespeare

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However much you knock at nature's door, she will never answer you in comprehensible words.

—Ivan Turgenev

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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

—Henry David Thoreau

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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.

—Lewis Grizzard

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Never lend your car to anyone to whom you have given birth.

—Erma Bombeck

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Children are the keys of paradise.

—Eric Hoffer

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You can go through life and make new friends every year — every month practically — but there was never any substitute for those friendships of childhood that survive into adult years.

—Alexander McCall Smith in The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

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If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away.

—Rainbow Rowell in Eleanor & Park

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