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Great men are not born great, they grow great . . .

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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
Author
Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Writer
New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
Greatness
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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults
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Power wears out those who do not have it.
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there was no greater natural advantage in life than having an enemy overestimate your faults, unless it was to have a friend underestimate your virtues.
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Michael could never remember his father ever having uttered a word about death, as if the Don respected death too much to philosophize about it.
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Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
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The strength of a family, like the strength of an army, lies in its loyalty to each other.
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You cannot say 'no' to the people you love, not often. That's the secret. And then when you do, it has to sound like a 'yes'. Or you have to make them say 'no.' You have to take time and trouble.
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He was a degenerate gambler. That is, a man who gambled simply to gamble and must lose. As a hero who goes to war must die. Show me a gambler and I'll show you a loser, show me a hero and I'll show you a corpse.
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I believe in America. America's made my fortune.
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Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.
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Santino, never let anyone outside the family know what you are thinking. Never let them know what you have under your fingernails. I think your brain is going soft from all that comedy you play with that young girl. Stop it and pay attention to business. Now get out of my sight.
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