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And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.

Dorothy Parker

I was always sweet, at first. Oh, it’s so easy to be sweet to people before you love them.
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Easy Love People Sweet Yourself
It was written without fear and without research.
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Fear Research Writing
A hangover is the wrath of grapes.
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Alcohol Angry Food Funny Grapes Wine
Misfortune, and recited misfortune especially, can be prolonged to the point where it ceases to excite pity and arouses only irritation.
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Excitement Fortune Irritation
The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.
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Boredom Curious Deep
Ridicule may be a shield, but it is not a weapon.
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Armor Protection Safety Weapon
I know this will come as a shock to you, Mr. Goldwyn, but in all history, which has held billions and billions of human beings, not a single one ever had a happy ending.
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End Happiness History Human Willing
If you want to know what God thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to.
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Deep God Himself Money People Thinking
You can’t teach an old dogma new tricks.
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Old Teaching Trick Yourself
There’s a hell of a distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.
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Distance Hell Simplicity Sports Truth Word
I can’t write five words but that I change seven.
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Change Myself Word Writing
All I say is, nobody has any business to go around looking like a horse and behaving as if it were all right. You don’t catch horses going around looking like people, do you?
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Animal Business People Right Yourself
What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.
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Beautiful Clean Deep Order Skin Ugly
And I’ll stay off Verlaine too; he was always chasing Rimbauds.
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Himself Run Stay
Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave.
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Age Choice Clothes Grave Life Style Time Yourself
Men seldom make passes at girls who wear glasses.
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Appearance Girl Man Wear

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