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Politicians love change, but of details only.
Mason Cooley
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Mason Cooley
Age: 75 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 1
Died: 2002
Died: July 25
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Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
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Sloth, not ill-will, makes me unjust.
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I obey my own commands about as often as others do.
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The supposed unhappiness of the rich is always a cheerful topic of conversation.
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Romance is tempestuous. Love is calm.
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My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
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Comedy is hostile to profundity, and brings everything to the surface.
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Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.
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Robert Frost: plain, strong, simple, and mean.
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Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.
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I tried self-sacrifice a couple of times in my youth.
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Lovers never want to say I love you at the same moment. Hence all the love stories.
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Beauty and virtue: the most kissable ass in the world is no guarantee of good intentions.
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Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth
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Magic lives in curves, not angles.
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As soon as I hear of a right, I want it.
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Telescopes and binoculars endanger the ever-distant sublime.
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Cheap thrill: moral outrage revels in its own innocence and in the guilt of the wicked Others.
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Yearning wants mostly to perpetuate itself.
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Every good time that goes on too long turns into a hell.
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