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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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The popping of bubblegum discourages the most determined lecher.
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Nonsense is socially OK, but not stupidity.
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The aphorism wants to be at the same time both main line and off beat.
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Drunks do not have friends, but accomplices.
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Virtue sometimes pretends. Vice is always sincere.
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In describing someone's character, I reveal my own.
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Unconditional love is a lofty ideal, but unconditional hate is a fact well documented by history.
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Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.
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In the game of love, the losers are more celebrated than the winners.
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Smiling half-reluctance seems to promise more than the frankest gesture of desire.
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I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.
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Skepticism does not preserve us from foolhardy deeds.
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My thought has been shaped by books my desires by pictures.
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Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
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Literature gives us a memory of lives we did not lead.
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Prudence suspects that happiness is a bait set by risk.
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When I get the point, I often don't know what to do with it.
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My father liked to moralize, and so do I. But he was in earnest, while I am embarrassed and pretend that I am merely being witty.
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Power makes gods. Virtue makes martyrs.
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I know that I am very much like everybody else, but not really.
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