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 | "It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm.
"Aha, my little dear," I say, "Your clan will pay me back one day."" | |
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Found in the topic Death.
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| "He and I had an office so tiny that an inch smaller and it would
have been adultery." | |
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Found in the topic Work.
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| "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown
with great force." | |
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Found in the topic Crisis.
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| "Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses." | |
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Found in the topic Courtship.
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| "Razors pain you; Rivers are damp; Acids stain you; And drugs cause
cramp. Guns aren"t lawful; Nooses give; Gas smells awful; You might as
well live." | |
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Found in the topic Pain.
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| "The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant
atmosphere and let the air out of the tires." | |
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Found in the topic Children.
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| "Brevity is the soul of lingerie." | |
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Found in the topic Breeding.
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| "Every year back spring comes, with nasty little birds, yapping their
fool heads off." | |
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Found in the topic Spring.
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| "His voice was as intimate as the rustle of sheets." | |
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Found in the topic Man.
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| "The two most beautiful words in the English language are "check
enclosed."" | |
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Found in the topic Engineer.
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| "The sweeter the apple, the blacker the core ? Scratch a lover, and
find a foe!" | |
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Found in the topic Unsorted.
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| "You can lead a horticulture but you can"t make her think." | |
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Found in the topic Prostitution.
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| "I"m never going to be famous. I don"t do anything, not one single
thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don"t even do that any more." | |
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Found in the topic False.
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| "If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek
to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it." | |
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Found in the topic Quotations.
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| "Said of a departing guest: That woman speaks eighteen languages and
can"t say No in any of them." | |
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Found in the topic Chastity.
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| "Excuse my dust." | |
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Found in the topic Epitaphs.
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| "Of Los Angeles: Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city." | |
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Found in the topic California.
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| "Four be the things I"d been better without: Love, curiosity,
freckles, and doubt." | |
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Found in the topic Better.
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| "Four things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a
foe." | |
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Found in the topic Friendship.
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| "At age seventy: If I had any decency, I"d be dead. Most of my
friends are." | |
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Found in the topic Age.
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