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"A statesmans words, like butchers meat, should be well weighed."
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John Oliver Hobbes... every man is practically three men. There is the man you know befo — John Oliver Hobbes
"... every man is practically three men. There is the man you know before he proposes: there is the man you have accepted: there is the man you have married."
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John Oliver Hobbes
John Oliver Hobbes
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Pearl Mary Teresa Richards was an Anglo-American novelist and dramatist who wrote under the pen-name of John Oliver Hobbes. Though her work fell out of print in the twentieth century, her first book Some Emotions and a Moral was a sensation in its day, selling eighty thousand copies in only a few weeks.
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"Ideals, my dear Golightly, are the root of every evil. When a man forgets his ideals he may hope for happiness, but not till then."
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": Id rather be ruled by a liver than by love! : A liver lasts longer!"
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"What a man has done bores everybody, but what he is going to do is always delightful."
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"The wisest are those who can best adjust their disadvantages."
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"Men astonish themselves far more than they astonish their friends."
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