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    A car is useless in New York, essential everywhere else. The same with good manners.

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    Acedia is not in every dictionary; just in every heart.

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    A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

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    A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

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    Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

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    A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

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    After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

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    After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.

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    Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

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    A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

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    A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

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    A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

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    Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!

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    All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

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    A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn't love.

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    Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.

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    Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

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    An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

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    A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.

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    A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

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    Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

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    Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

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    Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

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    A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

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    A perfect marriage is one in which "I'm sorry" is said just often enough.

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    A productive marriage requires falling in enjoy numerous occasions, usually with the identical man or woman.

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    As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.

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    At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

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    At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

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    A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

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    A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

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    A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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    Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

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    Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

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    Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.

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    Boredom is often the cause of promiscuity, and always its result.

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    Cash is the one gift everyone despises and no one turns down.

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    Character is what emerges from all the little things you were too busy to do yesterday, but did anyway.

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    Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

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    Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

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    Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

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    Courage can't see around corners but goes around them anyway.

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    Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.

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    Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

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    Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

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    Despair is anger with no place to go.

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    Don't ask others to forgive in you a sin they're dying to commit themselves.

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    Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

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    Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

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    Don't look for God where He is needed most; if you didn't bring Him there, He isn't there.