My main recollection is of the work I had to do in order to eat.
Clifton Paul Fadiman
My son is 7 years old. I am 54. It has taken me a great many years to reach that age. I am more respected in the community, I am stronger, I am more intelligent and I think I am better than he is. I don't want to be a pal, I want to be a father.
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We are all citizens of history.
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A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke and that the joke is oneself.
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
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When you read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
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When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.
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For most men, life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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He has made a profession out of a business and an art out of a profession.
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By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one.
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To feel at home, stay at home.
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To take wine into our mouths is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.
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As between mileage and experience choose experience.
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Experience teaches you that the man who looks you straight in the eye, particularly if he adds a firm handshake, is hiding something.
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The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.
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