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Caution and Conscience were the great twin brethren in his book of life, and the two warred perpetually the one against the other, so that there were premature lines round his eyes, and his mouth never dared smile for fear it gave birth to hopes that would not later be realized.
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It's never been my experience that men part with life any more readily at eighty than they do at eighteen.
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Marriage is the most delightful of the impermanencies of life.
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Life was no more than a boarding-house where one stayed too short a time to bother much if the hot water system didn't work very well or the beds were lumpy.
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In deep sadness there is no place for sentimentality.
William S. Burroughs
Anthony Gilbert
Born:
February 15, 1899
Died:
December 9, 1973
(aged 74)
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