Mason Cooley Quotes
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Observe decorum, and it will open a path to morality.
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The body has a mind of its own.
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Young men preen. Old men scheme.
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Ultimately, blind faith is the only kind.
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Self-reform is the only kind that works.
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Staid middle age loves the hurricane passions of opera.
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Journalism never admits that nothing much is happening.
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Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.
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Most reputations are not ruined but forgotten.
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Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
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Some loves are like a vice that has ceased to give pleasure.
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Minds will wander even during the Last Judgment.
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At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
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Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
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Many gloat over their own troubles.
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If beggars do not hate the rest of us, they are even more abject than I had imagined.
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The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.
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Forgiveness is like faith. You have to keep reviving it.
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Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.
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The horse stares at its captor, barely remembering the free kicks of youth.
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A blunt statement can be as false as any other.
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Totem poles and wooden masks no longer suggest tribal villages but fashionable drawing rooms in New York and Paris.
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It is possible to interpret without observing, but not to observe without interpreting.
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Folly always knows the answer.