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The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

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Only the mediocre are always at their best.

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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

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To my embarrassment I was born in bed with a lady.

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There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.

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The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

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I hate women because they always know where things are.

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It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

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The reverse side also has a reverse side.

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