Robert Quillen quotes
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“Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.”
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“As we grow older, our bodies get shorter and our anecdotes longer.”
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“Character is made by what you stand for;reputation by what you fall for.”
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“If we wish to make a new world we have the material ready. The first one, too, was made out of chaos.”
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“Another difference between death and taxes is that you don't have to work like fury to pay for the dying you did last year.”
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“If there be anything that can be called genius, it consists chiefly in ability to give that attention to a subject which keeps it steadily in the mind, till we have surveyed it accurately on all sides.”
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“The secret of a happy marriage is simple: Just keep on being as polite to one another as you are to your friends.”
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“Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone. G.B. Stern "If you count all your assets, you always show a profit."”
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“The tragedy of ignorance is its complacency.”
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“You aren't really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.”
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“Why wish for the privilege of living your past life again? You begin a new one every morning”
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“Another good reducing exercise consists in placing both hands against the table edge and pushing back”
-- Robert QuillenSource : "The Sage of Fountain Inn" by Alexander Woollcott in Cosmopolitan magazine, September 1933.
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“Middle age: The time when you'll do anything to feel better, except give up what is hurting you.”
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“There are glimpses of heaven to us in every act, or thought, or word, that raises us above ourselves.”
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“Why are congressmen called public servants? You never see servants that anxious to keep their jobs.”
-- Robert Quillen
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