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“It is not a bad thing that children should occasionally, and politely, put parents in their place.”

“Nothing ages a woman like living in the country.”

“I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.”

“You do not notice changes in what is always before you.”

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“As for an authentic villain, the real thing, the absolute, the artist, one rarely meets him even once in a lifetime. The ordinary bad hat is always in part a decent fellow.”

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