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“'Money does not bring happiness' — only the wherewithal, perhaps, to endure its absence.”
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“There are dangers in sentimentalizing nature. Most sentimental ideas imply, at bottom, a deep if unacknowledged disrespect. It is no accident that we Americans, probably the world's champion sentimentalizers about nature, are at one and the same time probably the world's most voracious and disrespectful destroyers of wild and rural countryside.”
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“Truth is so impossible. Something has to be done for it.”
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“I don't measure America by its achievement, but by its potential.”
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“... jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.”
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“The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.”
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“The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.”
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“Marriage is not a reform school.”