No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.
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If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.
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I know this -- a man got to do what he got to do.
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No one wants advice - only corroboration.
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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. In other words, I don't improve, in further words, once a bum always a bum. I fear the disease is incurable.
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