My mother protected me from the world and my father threatened me with it.

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"You should treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster."

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"Fashion is what you adopt when you don't know who you are."

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"If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style."

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""Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It’s cheaper.""

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"There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn’t get any worse."

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