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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Civilization creates discontents barbarism creates quick endings.
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Lovers always believe one another's sleight-of-hand tricks.
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
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The neuroses parody the virtues.
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Victorian sorrow: the stars are winking in the sky, but not for us.
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Like a frog, the aphorist waits for something to fly by that he can catch with his tongue.
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Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.
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The meaning of today will not be clear until tomorrow.
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If we knew enough, fortune would turn out to be nature.
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Imprudence gets us into more trouble than actual misdeeds do.
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Heroes are born to be troublemakers.
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Losing gracefully is commended but never chosen.
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The prison is the state writ small.
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Advice is more agreeable in the mouth than in the ear.
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Talk about yourself as much as you like, but do not expect others to listen.
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A laughing Lear would be monstrous. Not so a laughing Romeo and Juliet.
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Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.
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Passion cooks. Reason cleans.
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My parents wanted me to solace them for sorrows they denied having had.
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Once I find the right maxim to apply, I feel that I have done all that can be expected of me.
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