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If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.
What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
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Ragtime was a fanfare for the 20th century.
Russell Lynes
It is always well to accept your own shortcomings with candor but to regard those of your friends with polite incredulity.
Russell Lynes
The Good Quality Snob, or wearer of muted tweeds, cut almost exactly the same from year to year, often with a hat of the same material, [is] native to the Boston North Shore, the Chicago North Shore, the North Shore of Long Island, to Westchester County, the Philadelphia Main Line and the Peninsula area of San Francisco.
Russell Lynes
Are you always this stupid or are you making a special effort today?
Russell Lynes
Don't let you mind wander - it's far too small to be let out on its own.
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