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" The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. "
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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" No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there. "
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" Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke. "
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" Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all. "
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" Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material. "
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" No decent career was ever founded on a public. "
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" The victor belongs to the spoils. "
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" Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. "
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" What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? "
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" Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. "
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" An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards. "
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" It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. "
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" It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did. "
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" Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues. "
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" A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. "
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" Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat. "
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