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You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.

Bernard DeVoto

The parks preserve it permanently in the inheritance of the American citizens.
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Citizen Country Park Permamnetly Preserve
You can no more keep a martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there. The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth and one of the shortest-lived.
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Earth Happiest Kissing Life Sudden
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
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Kissing Martini Refrigerator
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
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Doe Math Mind
Between the amateur and the professional . . . there is a difference not only in degree but in kind.
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Airplane Player Wisdom
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
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Reason Refuse Trouble
History abhors determinism but cannot tolerate chance.
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Art History Philosophy
Sure the people are stupid: the human race is stupid. Sure Congress is an inefficient instrument of government. But the people are not stupid enough to abandon representative government for any other kind, including government by the guy who knows.
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Government Race Stupid
A novelist has mad a fictional representation of life. I doing so, he has revealed to us more significance, it may be, than he could find in life itself.
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Mad May Novelists
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
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Medicine Possibility Teaching
When evening quickens in the street, comes a pause in the day’s occupation that is known as the cocktail hour.
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Cocktail Evening Occupation
The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.
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Evidence Generosity Life Men
Something can be done with people who put pickled onions in: strangulation seems best.
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Done Onions People
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
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May Paper Writing
The achieved West had given the United States something that no people had ever had before, an internal, domestic empire.
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Empires Internal People United States
Art is the terms of an armistice signed with fate.
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Armistice Art Fate

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