"Think before you speak. Read before you think."
"Notoriously insensitive to subtle shifts in mood, children will persist in discussing the color of a recently sighted cement-mixer long after one's own interest in the topic has waned."
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Source: Fran Lebowitz (2011). “The Fran Lebowitz Reader”, p.53, Vintage
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