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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.

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When you are eight years old, nothing is any of your business.

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Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen?

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I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

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The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.

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Setting a good example for children takes all the fun out of middle age.

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There is no such thing as "fun for the whole family."

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Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

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