In a happy marriage it is the wife who provides the climate, the husband the landscape.
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Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.Gerald Brenan
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Miller is not really a writer but a non-stop talker to whom someone has given a typewriter.
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The cliche is dead poetry.
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We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
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