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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Bad Days Good Good Old Days Memory More Nothing Old Old Days Responsible Than

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Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Best Best Time Feel Health Makes Now Thing Time Year You

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Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Against Because Chiefly Elections Men Men And Women Most People Rather Somebody Than Vote Women Won

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We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Aggression All Nations Cultivation Everything History Invite Nations Nothing Our Peace Position Relations Us

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Too much truth is uncouth.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Much Too Too Much Truth Truth Is Uncouth

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Years ago we discovered the exact point, the dead center of middle age. It occurs when you are too young to take up golf and too old to rush up to the net.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Age Center Dead Discovered Exact Golf Middle Middle Age Net Occurs Old Point Rush Take Too Up Years Years Ago You Young

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Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Having Hour Imagination Minute Only Paragraph Take Takes Were Would Write You

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There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Cent Cost Country Five Good Plenty Quarter Trouble

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Christmas is over and Business is Business.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Business Christmas Over

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You do not know what you can miss before you try.

~Franklin Pierce Adams

Topics: Before Know Miss Try You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: November 15th, 1881

Died: March 23rd, 1960

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