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A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.

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As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg’s six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.
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Myself Reading
It’s always best to stay out of other people’s divorces. And their civil wars.
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Best Divorce Finding Ourselves People Stay
Americans, in general, are ignorant, bigoted, and deeply unhappy with their declining incomes.
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Decline Ignorance Income Sadness
The theater needs continual reminders that there is nothing more debasing than the work of those who do well what is not worth doing at all.
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Need Reminder Theatre Well Worth
In classical times, it was a capital offense to speculate upon the hour of a king’s death or upon the identity of his successor.
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Capital Death Himself Offense Success Time
After adolescence, if one’s life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.
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Diminish Interesting Life Oneself Story
I was the most famous kid in the United States. That was 1936.
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Children Country Famous Past Time
What other culture could have produced someone like Hemingway and not seen the joke?
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Culture Joke Production See
I know a lot of the Annapolis breed.
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Known Myself
We’re not a democracy.
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Democracy One Liner
The media can’t get anything straight.
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Media Straight
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
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Hope Newspaper Oneself People Reading
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
What I like least about myself is my belligerence.
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Character Myself Nature
I was like everyone else when Obama was elected – optimistic.
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Myself Optimistic President
Some have deplored Lincoln’s indifference to Christianity. But it was not religion, it was religiosity that put him off.
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Difference Himself Religion

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