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"I have a friend, physically magnificent, who combines within himself the intellect of a philosopher, the diplomacy of a statesman, the executive ability of the general of an army, the courtesy of a Chesterfield - and the emotions of a rabbit."
"Anger is a better weapon than tears; a burr commands more respect than a sensitive plant."
"The appointed thing comes at the appointed time in the appointed way."
"Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want."
"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
"If we all tried to make other people's paths easy, our own feet would have a smooth even place to walk on."
"May our house always be too small to hold all of our friends."
"A real love letter is absolutely ridiculous to everyone except the writer and the recipient."
"Pedestals are always lonely."
"Gossip is the social mosquito."
"Legislation may at times be disobeyed, but never law, for the breaking brings swift punishment of its own."
"On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled, losing concern for that part of the journey which is yet to come, we have grown old."
"In every life there is a perfect moment, like a flash of sun. We can shape our days by that, if we will - before by faith, and afterward by memory."
"One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do."
"Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would have changed; there is no moment when I would have you other than you have been. It is the fashion these days, I know, to say that love ends at the altar, but it is not so. You and I have found the old dream of the world divinely true. It is neither a poet's fancy nor a trick of the imagination, but a thing of fadeless and unending beauty."
"it is bad manners to contradict a guest. You must never insult people in your own house - always go to theirs."
"Some women are born to be married, some achieve marriage, and others have marriage thrust upon them."
"Sins of commission are far more productive of happiness than the sins of omission."
"Activity is a sovereign remedy for the blues."
"For the size of it, a check book is about the greatest convenience I know of."