No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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Nationality: American Type: Journalist Born: October 27, 1951 |
Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.
I haven't played a chess match for several decades. At one point I lost most of my chess games. Then I realized many of my competitors were memorizing the best moves and I was unwilling to do this.