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One advantage of marriage, it seems to me, is that when you fall out...
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Life is an onion and one peels it crying.
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Well may we say God save the Queen, because nothing will save the Governor-General.
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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just...
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Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and...
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Action is at bottom a swinging and flailing of the arms to regain one’s...
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What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a...