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My father used to say,
'Superior people never make long visits,
have to be shown Longfellow's grave
or the glass flowers at Harvard.'
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The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
Distaste which takes no credit to itself is best.
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Everything I have written is the result of reading or of interest in people, I'm sure of that. I had no ambition to be a writer.
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The cynics in life are the people who are always trying to do things for people who don't want things done for them.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
Marianne Moore
Born:
November 15, 1887
Died:
February 5, 1972
(aged 84)
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