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Dogs are getting bigger, according to a leading dog manufacturer.
Leo Rosten
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Leo Rosten
Age: 88 †
Born: 1908
Born: January 1
Died: 1997
Died: January 1
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Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.
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O, to be sure, we laugh less and play less and wear uncomfortable disguises like adults, but beneath the costume is the child we always are, whose needs are simple, whose daily life is still best described by fairy tales.
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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.
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If at first you don't succeed, before you try again, stop to figure out what you did wrong.
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Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.
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Extremists think 'communication' means agreeing with them.
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The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.
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You can learn much about life from a checker game: surrender one to take two don't make two moves at one time move up, not down and when you reach the top, you may move as you like.
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Acting is a form of deception, and actors can mesmerize themselves almost as easily as an audience.
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Everyone, in some small sacred sanctuary of the self, is nuts.
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Words must surely be counted among the most powerful drugs man ever invented.
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I learned that it is the weak who are cruel, and that gentleness is to be expected only from the strong.
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A writer writes not because he is educated but because he is driven by the need to communicate. Behind the need to communicate is the need to share. Behind the need to share is the need to be understood.
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Her cooking suggested she had attended the Cordon Noir.
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If a picture is worth a thousand words, please paint me the Gettysburg Address.
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Every writer is a narcissist. This does not mean that he is vain it only means that he is hopelessly self-absorbed.
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You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature they simply grow taller.
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Where there is too much, something is missing.
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Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.
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The writer wants to be understood much more than he wants to be respected or praised or even loved. And that, perhaps, is what makes him different from others.
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