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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.
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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A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
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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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No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
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Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote.
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It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on.
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An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out.
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To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
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A man may be said to love most truly that woman in whose company he can feel drowsy in comfort.
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