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Love is an emotion experienced by the many and enjoyed by the few.
George Jean Nathan
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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
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The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not have done, and which one did not do.
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I drink so the others become interesting.
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A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
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There is something distinguished about even his failures they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.
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One does not go to the theater to see life and nature one goes to see the particular way in which life and nature happen to look to a cultivated, imaginative and entertaining man who happens, in turn, to be a playwright.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.
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An abstainer is the sort of man you wouldn't want to drink with even if he did.
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Opening Night: The night before the play is ready to open.
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It is only the cynicism that is born of success that is penetrating and valid.
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It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their personal stock of meditations, ideas, criticisms, memories, philosophy, humor and what not.
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A man admires a woman not for what she says, but what she listens to.
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