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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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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A great man is one sentence.
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You know, that's the only good thing about divorce you get to sleep with your mother.
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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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The oppressed never free themselves - they do not have the necessary strengths.
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the only time travelers are really gay is when they are traveling for no good reason at all.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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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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Thoughts have no sex.
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Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.
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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife.
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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
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all history shows that the hand that cradles the rock has ruled the world, not the hand that rocks the cradle!
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A man's home may seem to be his castle on the outside inside is more often his nursery.
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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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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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Guns know no policy except destruction.
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