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You're just the romantic age,Ђ...

You're just the romantic age,Ђќ she continued- 'fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.Ђќ - Hildegarde

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Very well then, better a sane ...

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

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A writer wastes nothing....

A writer wastes nothing.

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In the morning you were never ...

In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party.

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I don't think he was ever happ...

I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart.

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Experience is not worth the ge...

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

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The bottle of whiskey - the se...

The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all.

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Then came the war, old sport. ...

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

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The transition from libertine ...

The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

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He dispensed starlight to casu...

He dispensed starlight to casual moths.

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They had never been closer in ...

They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep.

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Most affectations conceal some...

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

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Modern life... changes no long...

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

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Progress was a labyrinth ... p...

Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the Г©lan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school...

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Never walk near the bed; to a ...

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

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The failure and the success bo...

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

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The bar is in full swing, and ...

The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other's names.

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It was one of those rare smile...

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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All things come to him who mat...

All things come to him who mates.

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Life was a damned muddle - a f...

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

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Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....