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“The best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today’s work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.”

“Maria was one of your true aristocrats; the perfection of the hidden things was even more important to her than the outward show.”

“The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that; and maybe sleeping beauty’s dead.”

“Everybody say she was real nice and cooked good. […] She liked takin’ care of people […] I mean, people always say she was really just hospitality, you know, fixin everything up nice, make a good place, get up, cook breakfast for everybody, even if it’s twenty of them.”

“He looked rather pleasantly like a blond Satan.”

“All children, except one, grow up.”

“Happiness is not something you can chase. It is something you have to allow.”

“It is not seldom the case that, when a man is browbeaten in some unprecedented and violently unreasonable way, he begins to stagger in his own plainest faith. He begins, as it were, vaguely to surmise that, wonderful as it may be, all the justice and all the reason is on the other side. Accordingly, if any disinterested persons are present, he turns to them for some reinforcement for his own faltering mind.”

“I’m sorry. There. That’s it. I’ve said it. Now can I go?”

“In the wake of the September 11 attacks, it became clear that the FBI’s number one priority must be the prevention of another terrorist attack.”