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Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all

Rereading A.J. Liebling carries me happily back to an age when all good journalists knew they had plenty to be modest about, and were. – Russell Baker

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Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didnt know. – Russell Baker

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Anticipating that most poetry will be worse than carrying heavy luggage through OHare Airport, the public, to its loss, reads very little of it. – Russell Baker

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Poetry
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It seems to be a law in American life that whatever enriches us anywhere except in the wallet inevitably becomes uneconomic. – Russell Baker

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My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since. – Rachel Roy

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Wives are young mens mistresses, companions for middle age, and old mens nurses. – Francis Bacon

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Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine. – Isak Dinesen

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Ive spent as much as 30 grand on a watch but its not about flaunting my wealth. I dont have many extravagances but watches are my biggest one. I must have 30 of them now. Ive been collecting since the age of nine, when I won a black TAG in a karting event. – Jenson Button

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There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall. – Colette

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