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A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners. - [Manners : New York] A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. - [Marriage] A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer. - [Age] Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense. - [Bravery : Cowards] Every society honors its live conformists and its dead troublemakers. - [Conformity] It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not. - [Friendship] It took man thousands of years to put words down on paper, and his lawyers still wish he wouldn't. - [Lawyers] It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. - [Innocence] Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers. - [Learning] Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. - [Sin] Most of us become parents long before we have stopped being parents. - [Parenthood] No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves. - [Ideas] Our strength is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show. - [Strength] The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings. - [Ignorance] The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it. - [Humility] The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it. - [Revolution] There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them. - [Money] There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today. - [Procrastination] We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. - [Generosity]
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