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The only wealth in this world is children, more than all the money, power on earth.
Mario Puzo
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Mario Puzo
Age: 78 †
Born: 1920
Born: October 15
Died: 1999
Died: July 2
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Diplomat
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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New York City
New York
Mario Cleri
Mario Gianluigi Puzo
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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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Never let a domestic quarrel ruin a day's writing. If you can't start the day fresh, get rid of your wife.
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A lawyer with his briefcase can steal more than a hundred men with guns.
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But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.
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It's just business nothing personal.
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It was not perhaps the warmest friendship in the world, they would not send each other Christmas gift greetings, but they would not murder each other.
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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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Time erodes gratitude more quickly than it does beauty!
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Power wears out those who do not have it.
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I spent my whole life trying not to be careless. Women and children can afford to be careless, but not men.
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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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