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A good farmer is nothing more nor less than a handy man with a sense of humus.
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Man
Nothing
Sense
The critic leaves at curtain fall To find, in starting to review it, He scarcely saw the play at all For starting to review it.
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Play
A writer is like a bean plant - he has his little day, and then gets stringy.
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Day
Writer
To perceive Christmas through its wrappings becomes more difficult with every year.
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Christmas
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
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Health
Work
Hard work
Writing
Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.
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Faith
Act
Grammar
Writing
When I was a child people simply looked about them and were moderately happy; today they peer beyond the seven seas, bury themselves waist deep in tidings, and by and large what they see and hear makes them unutterably sad.
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People
Deep
Today
One of the most time-consuming things is to have an enemy.
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Time
Enemy
We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry.
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Joy
Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.
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Age
Old
There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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Leading
There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an agreement.
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People
Agreement
Countries
Nothing
The world organization debates disarmament in one room and, in the next room, moves the knights and pawns that make national arms imperative.
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World
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
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People
Profit
Trouble
The time not to become a father is eighteen years before a war.
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Time
War
Father
Years