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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"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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Failure

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

- Quentin Crisp

Contentment

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

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- Eric Sevareid

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- G.K. Chesterton

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