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Quote by Thomas Mann
Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I h

Respectable means rich, and decent means poor. I should die if I heard my family called decent. – Thomas Mann

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Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous – to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd. – Thomas Mann

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Families are like fudge — mostly sweet with a few nuts. – Author Unknown

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The family only represents one aspect, however important an aspect, of a human beings functions and activities. A life is beautiful and ideal or the reverse, only when we have taken into our consideration the social as well as the family relationship. – Havelock Ellis

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Family

My sense of the family history is somewhat sketchy, because my mother kept a great deal to herself. – Julie Andrews

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Family

When I was working, and when I was making substantial amounts of money, I always filed and paid my taxes. This only stopped, when it was necessary to withdraw from society, in order to guarantee the safety and well-being of myself and my family. – Lauryn Hill

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Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly. – Jonathan Swift

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Only the really plain people know about love – the very fascinating ones try so hard to create an impression that they soon exhaust their talents. – Katharine Hepburn

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That something extra, I believe, is a certain humanity that comes from upbeat and positive human interest letters and success stories. Advertisers like to be associated with those qualities. – Casey Kasem

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If you keep rephrasing the question, it gradually becomes the answer. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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