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Certainly ‘The Judgment of Paris’ was the novel in which I found my own voice.
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Finding Judgement Myself Novel Voice
As for civil liberties, any one who is not vigilant may one day find himself living, if not in a police state, at least in a police city.
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Civil Finding Liberty Live Police
The United States is the only civilized country in the world to class its teachers at the bottom of the social scale.
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Civilization Country Scale Social Teacher World
I can’t name three first-rate literary critics in the United States. I’m told there are a few hidden away at universities, but they don’t print them in ‘The New York Times.’
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Criticism Literature Myself Name University
I’m always an optimist!
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Myself Optimism
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right – constitutional right.
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Happiness Liberty Life Right
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
We are pleased to dismiss politics as entirely corrupt, if not financially, intellectually.
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Financial Intellectual Politics
I’m a fervent foe of water pollution, whether it is our own Hudson River or Philadelphia’s tap water.
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Myself Nature Pollution Water
History is nothing but gossip about the past, with the hope that it might be true.
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Gossip History Hope Past True
All children alarm their parents, if only because you are forever expecting to encounter yourself.
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Children Expectation Forever
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset
For the record, I’m a Second World War veteran and served in the Pacific.
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Record Severe War World
A racial or religious or tribal identity is a kind of fact.
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Fact Identity Kind Race Religious Tribal

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