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All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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Each youth betrays considerable anxiety about the wedding night ahead.
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Anxiety Night Youth
I am only at home in the present.
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Home Oneself Present
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
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Active Literature Lose Time Virtue World Writing
In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you’re a great writer, you must say that you are.
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Greatness Loud Race Yourself
Envy is the central fact of American life.
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Central Fact Life
Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
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Death Friendship Myself Success
Nearly everyone who goes into a campaign is not only eager for the place he hopes to fill but for what might come after.
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Filling Himself Hope Place
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
I hate nobody.
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Hate Myself One Liner
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
He who is last had best laugh.
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End Himself Laughter
There is no human problem which could not be solved if people would simply do as I advise.
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Human Myself People Problem Solution
The truth about Pearl Harbour is obscured to this day. But it has been much studied.
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Day Study Truth Unknown
On September 5, 1774, forty-five of the weightiest colonial men formed the First Continental Congress at Philadelphia.
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Congress Form Man Weight
One is sorry one could not have taken both branches of the road. But we were not allotted multiple selves.
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Choice Journey Oneself Road
The unfed mind devours itself.
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Devour Mindset

All in all, I would not have missed this century for the world.

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