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Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, lessens the friction of social contacts. . . . It is only in lies, wholeheartedly and bravely told, that human nature attains through words and speech the forebearance, the nobility, the romance, the idealism, that-being what it is-it falls so short of in fact and in deed.
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