Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different.

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The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

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I don’t want just words. If that’s all you have for me, you’d better go

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Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.

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Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

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For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

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Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.

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He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man.

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No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

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