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Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.

Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there’s the devil to pay.
– Saul Bellow

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  8. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away. – Saul Bellow
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  10. I am not an ornithologist-”I am a bird. – Saul Bellow
  11. Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door. – Saul Bellow
  12. Even if I am not the honestest type in the world I don’t want to lie more than is average. – Saul Bellow
  13. Strict and literal truthfulness was a trivial game and might even be a disagreeable neurotic affliction. – Saul Bellow
  14. What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn’t to make a nobility of us all? – Saul Bellow
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  25. Emancipation resulting in madness. Unlimited freedom to choose and play a tremendous variety of roles with a lot of coarse energy. – Saul Bellow
  26. The heart of the home beats in the kitchen and a healthy one beats three times a day – Bangambiki Habyarimana
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  28. Price and Cost. Sometimes we pay more. Sometimes we pay less. You’ve got to determine what you are willing to pay for success. – Bobby F Kimbrough Jr
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  30. O let us live in joy, in love among those who hate! Among men who hate, let us live in love. – Anonymous
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  40. It seemed to me that if the lawyers failed to do their duty, they ought to pay people for waiting upon them, instead of making them pay for it. – RD Blackmore

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