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“I believe that people believe what they believe they believe.”

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Good Intentions (1942), Seeing Eye to Eye is Believing

People

“The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.”

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"The Anatomy of Happiness"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

Happiness

“It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators
all, and I recommend to you this moral:
In real life it takes only one to make a quarrel.”

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"I Never Even Suggested It"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

Life , Women

“Being a father
Is quite a bother,
But I like it, rather.”

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"Soliloquy in Circles"
Versus (1949)

“I think that comparisons are truly odious, I do not approve of this constant proud or envious to-do;
And furthermore, dear friends, I think that you and yours are delightful and I also think that me and mine are delightful too.”

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Versus (1949), Possessions are Nine Points of Conversation

Thinking

“Leave the earth to the strong and athletic,
And the sea to adventure upon.
But the sun and the sand
No contractor can copy;
We lie in the land
Of the lotus and poppy;
We vegetate, calm and aesthetic,
On the beach, on the sand, in the sun.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Pretty Halcyon Days

Lie , Strong , Sun , Sea

“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.”

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"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)

“The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks
Doth practically conceal its sex
I think it clever of the turtle
In such a fix to be so fertile.”

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"The Turtle"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

Sex , Thinking

“Miranda in Miranda's sight
Is old and gray and dirty;
Twenty-nine she was last night;
This morning she is thirty.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty

Night

“I've earned repose to heal the ravages
Of these angelic-looking savages.
Oh, progeny playing by itself
Is a lonely little elf,
But progeny in roistering batches
Would drive St. francis from here to Natchez.”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), Children's Party

Angels

“Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;
Consider the Empire and Gandhi.”

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"I Never Even Suggested It"
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

“Senator Smoot is an institute
Not to be bribed with pelf;
He guards our homes from erotic tomes
By reading them all himself.”

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Smoot Smites Smut

Home , Reading

“Oh, Night will not see thirty again,
Yet soft her wing, Miranda;
Pick up your glass and tell me, then —
How old is Spring, Miranda?”

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Many Long Years Ago (1945), A Lady Thinks She Is Thirty

Spring , Night

“And I also say Pooh for sweetness and light,
And if you want to get the most out of life, why the thing to do is to be a gossiper by day and gossipee by night.”

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I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938), I Have It On Good Authority

Life , Light , Night

“It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,
That lays eggs under your skin.”

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"Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man" (1959)

“The song of canaries
Never varies,
And when they're moulting
They're pretty revolting.”

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"The Canary"
Free Wheeling (1931)

“I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I'll never see a tree at all.”

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"Song of the Open Road" — this poem is a parody of "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
Many Long Years Ago (1945)

Love , Thinking , Tree

“Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed
the floor.”

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"You and Me and P. B. Shelley" http://books.google.com/books?id=zixbAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Life+is+not+having+been+told+that+the+man+has+just+waxed+the+floor%22&pg=PA5#v=onepage
Good Intentions (1942)

Life

“She took those pills from the pill concocter,
And Isabel calmly cured the doctor.”

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"Adventures of Isabel" http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/adventures-of-isabel/

“One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.”

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"A Clean Conscience Never Relaxes"
I'm a Stranger Here Myself (1938)