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Life... is not simply a series of exciting new ventures. The future is not always a whole new ball game. There tends to be unfinished business. One trails all sorts of things around with one, things that simply won't be got rid of.
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Good women always think it is their fault when someone else is being offensive. Bad women never take the blame for anything.
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In real life, of course, it is the hare that wins. Every time. Look around you.
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Accountability in friendship is the equivalent of love without strategy.
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It is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. hares have no time to read.
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The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so just.
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In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game.
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The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.
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All good fortune is a gift of the gods, and you don't win the favor of the ancient gods by being good, but by being bold.
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A man of such obvious and exemplary charm must be a liar.
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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.
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Real love is a pilgrimage. It happens when there is no strategy, but it is very rare because most people are strategists.
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You have no idea how promising the world begins to look once you have decided to have it all for yourself. And how much healthier your decisions are once they become entirely selfish.
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No blame should attach to telling the truth. But it does, it does.
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