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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in Congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.
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You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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I have never met a man [in the military], in or out of uniform, who ever said, Let's use the missiles. They are even more terrified that the Bishops, because a great many of them don't expect to go to Heaven, which at least the Bishops do.
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Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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If you ever manage to make a fool of me, I'll deserve what I get.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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[On the Democratic Party:] Its leaders are always troubadors of trouble crooners of catastrophe ... A Democratic President is doomed to proceed to his goals like a squid, squirting darkness all about him.
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Technological man can't believe in anything that can't be measured, taped, or put into a computer.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Greta Garbo: A deer in the body of a woman, living resentfully in the Hollywood zoo.
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