"You do what you can, and you do it because you should. But all you can do is all you can do."
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"The cleverest woman on earth is the biggest fool on earth with a man."
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"Salary is no object: I want only enough to keep body and soul apart."
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"Telegram to a friend who had just become a mother after a prolonged pregnancy: Good work, Mary. We all knew you had it in you."
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"Honesty means nothing until you are tested under circumstances where you are sure you could get away with dishonesty."
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"Writing well is the best revenge."
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"I like best to have one book in my hand, and a stack of others on the floor beside me, so as to know the supply of poppy and mandragora will not run out before the small hours."
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"Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse."
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"But I don't give up; I forget why not."
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"[On Katharine Hepburn's stage performance:] She ran the whole gamut of emotions, from A to B."
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"Heterosexuality is not normal, it's just common."
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"(Scottish Terriers) have all the compactness of a small dog and all the valor of a big one. And they are so exceedingly sturdy that it is proverbial that the only thing fatal to them is being run over by an automobile - in which case the car itself knows it has been in a fight."
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"Where's the man could ease a heart Like a satin gown?"
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"I wouldn't touch a superlative again with an umbrella."
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"Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them."
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"The Monte Carlo casino refused to admit me until I was properly dressed so I went and found my stockings, and then came back and lost my shirt."
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"My own dear love, he is strong and bold And he cares not what comes after. His words ring sweet as a chime of gold, And his eyes are lit with laughter. He is jubilant as a flag unfurled - Oh, a girl, she'd not forget him. My own dear love, he is all my world - And I wish I'd never met him."
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"I regret to say that during the first act of this, I fell so soundly asleep that the gentleman who brought me piled up a barricade of overcoat, hat, stick, and gloves between us to establish a separation in the eyes of the world, and went into an impersonation of A Young Man Who Has Come to the Theater Unaccompanied."
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"Bewildered is the fox who lives to find that grapes beyond reach can be really sour."
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"If I didn't care for fun and such, I'd probably amount to much. But I shall stay the way I am, Because I do not give a damn."
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