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A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but s...  
America is a land where men govern, but women rule.  
Among the Round Tablers at the Algonquin Hotel, Sherwood stood out lik...  
Charm is a glow within a woman that casts a most becoming light on oth...  
Friendship should be a private pleasure, not a public boast. I loathe ...  
He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.  
How prophetic L'Enfant was when he laid out Washington as a city that ...  
I am as content to die for God's eternal truth on the scaffold as in a...  
I am ready any time. Do not keep me waiting.  
I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty lan...  
No one is worthy of a good home here or in heaven that is not willing ...  
She knows what is the best purpose of education: not to be frightened ...  
So often we rob tomorrow's memories by today's economies.  
Some television programs are so much chewing gum for the eyes.  
The comic book is the marijuana of the nursery, the bane of the bassin...  
The critic is a man who prefers the indolence of opinion to the trials...  
The more I observed Washington, the more frequently I visited it, and ...  
The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better.  
The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose...