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Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.

~Booth Tarkington

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An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

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Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.

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Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.

~Booth Tarkington

Topics: Boy Boyhood Decades Last Life Like Living Longest Longest Time Made Millennium Term Them Through Time Waiting Weeks

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So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

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He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

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Topics: Away Desires Female Had He Her Learned Male Only Rebuke Safe Scornful She Stay

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Novelist

Born: July 29th, 1869

Died: May 19th, 1946

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