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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

— Fran Lebowitz

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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women it is simply a good excuse not to play football.

Women who insist on having the same options as men would do well to consider the option of being the strong, silent type.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.

Having been unpopular in high school is not just cause for book publication.

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

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Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

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The young leading the young, is like the blind leading the blind; “they will both fall into the ditch.”

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman (1774)

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