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I wish you smoked. I don't know why you don't. You weren't an athlete in high school or anything, were you?" "No." "That's why Bun doesn't smoke. Some clean-living type of football

If they do, I certainly want to have an excuse for having been here. And pick up that match," he said sourly to Francis

I want to sleep," he said, with a melodramatic roll of his eye, " Ã¢â'¬Ëœdormir plutôt que vivre'!" " Ã¢â'¬ËœDans un sommeil aussi doux que la mort …' Ã¢â'¬Â said Henry with a smile.

I sometimes get the feeling that he was less pleased by kindness itself than by the elegance of the gesture.

You know that thing Julian used to say,' said Francis. 'Which thing?' 'About a Hindu saint being able to slay a thousand on the battlefield and it not being a sin unless he felt remorse.

Have some champagne, quick, Bunny said. It's going flat. Where is it? In the teapot.

Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall argued in another context many years later, the "grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.

It is seldom that persons who enjoy intervals of public life are happy in their periods of seclusion.

I don't know that I will ever make a political speech again." Would he care to qualify that statement? one reporter queried. "Yes," Roosevelt laughingly said. "I won't say never.

Theodore Roosevelt's father wrote him, I fear for your future. We cannot stand so corrupt a government for any great length of time.

report that Tad was better eased Lincoln's mind

The domestic scene," she admitted, referring not only to the coal dispute but to a rash of racial disturbances that had recently broken out, "is anything but encouraging and one would like not to think about it, because it gives one a feeling that, as a whole, we are not really prepared for democracy.

With public sentiment, nothing can fail," Abraham Lincoln said, "without it nothing can succeed.

The choice of Blaine "speaks badly for the intelligence of the mass of my party," he ruefully continued. "It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred; but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, or, what is still worse, the voice of a fool." Still

Shortly after the Kaiserin dropped anchor at Quarantine, the revenue cutter Manhattan pulled alongside

Roosevelt saw everything, grasped the sense of everything, and formed an opinion on everything which he was eager to maintain at any risk.

I hated the 1960's feminists, she says. They were dogmatists, you see. In comes ideology, and out goes common sense. This is my experience of life.

The charge that the United Nations are using bacteriological warfare in Korea cannot be dismissed merely because it would be insane.

I don't think there's a pattern anywhere - you are just making patterns, out of cowardice. I think people aren't good at all, they are cannibals, and when you get down to it no one cares about anyone else.

I remember someone saying that the importance of any public man can be gauged by the number of mellifluous young men he has about him.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

What is history? A record of misery, brutality and stupidity. That'a all. That's all it ever will be.

I see I am falling into the self-punishing, cynical tone again. Yet how comforting this tone is, like a sort of poultice on a wound.

Intentions, yours or anyone else's, don't matter; they never matter and never excuse.