“A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.”
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All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
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If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
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San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.
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Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
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The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.
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