“It was one of those parties where you cough twice before you speak and then decide not to say it after all.”
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“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
“Everything in life that’s any fun, as somebody wisely observed, is either immoral, illegal or fattening.”
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“As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.”
― Something Fresh
― Something Fresh
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