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“Cleverness is a quality a man likes to have in his wife as long as she is some distance away from him. Up close, he'll take kindness any day of the week, if there's nothing more alluring to be had.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad

“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.”
― Henry James