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We deny that it is fun to be saving. It is fun to be prodigal. Go to the butterfly, thou parsimonious sluggard consider her ways and get wise.
Franklin P. Adams
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Franklin P. Adams
Age: 78 †
Born: 1881
Born: November 15
Died: 1960
Died: March 23
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If, my dear, you seek to slumber Count of stars an endless number If you will continue wakeful Count the drops that make a lakeful Then if vigilance yet above you Hover, Count the times I love you And if slumber sill repel you Count the times I do not tell you.
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Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory.
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There is no accounting for tastes, as the woman said when someone told her her son was wanted by the police.
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The best part of the fiction in many novels is the notice that the characters are purely imaginary.
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To err is human to forgive, infrequent.
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While the work or play is on, it is a lot of fun if while you are doing one you don't constantly feel that you ought to be doing the other.
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Day after day, night after night, my life at home is far from bright, but even home has more variety, than I can find in cafe society.
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Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.
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Our notion of an optimist is a man who knowing that each year was worse than the preceding, thinks next year will be better. And a pessimist is a man who knows the next year can't be worse than the last one.
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Drinking is bad taste but tastes good.
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One man's pointlessness is another's barbed satire.
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I find that a great part of the information I have was acquired by looking up something and finding something else on the way.
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