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The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has t

The trouble with us in America isn’t that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy. – Louis Kronenberger

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The closer and more confidential our relationship with someone, the less we are entitled to ask about what we are not voluntarily told. – Louis Kronenberger

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relationship
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Nothing so soothes our vanity as a display of greater vanity in others; it make us vain, in fact, of our modesty. – Louis Kronenberger

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Vanity
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Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week. – Louis Kronenberger

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Age
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Advertising is the art of making whole lies out of half truths. – Edgar A. Shoaff

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Advertising

It is our job to make women unhappy with what they have. – B. Earl Puckett, quoted in Stephen Donadio, The New York Public Library: Book of

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Advertising

So long as there’s a jingle in your head, television isn’t free. – Jason Love

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Advertising

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement. – Samuel Johnson

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There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one – keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy. – Mark Twain

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Happiness

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. – Octavio Paz

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Wisdom

These words dropped into my childish mind as if you should accidentally drop a ring into a deep well. I did not think of them much at the time, but there came a day in my life when the ring was fished up out of the well, good as new. – Harriet Beecher Stowe, Old Town Folks, 1869

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Jewelry

There are old heads in the world who cannot help me by their example or advice to live worthily and satisfactorily to myself but I believe that it is in my power to elevate myself this very hour above the common level of my life. – Henry David Thoreau

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Life