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“A man can be happy with any woman as long as he does not love her.”
― Oscar Wilde

“You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“Understanding human needs is half the job of meeting them.”
― Adlai E. Stevenson II

“To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others. -- Count of Monte Cristo”
― Alexandre Dumas

“I only know that it was, and ceased to be; and that I have written, and there I leave it.”
― Charles Dickens, David Copperfield

“You may be a puzzle, but I like the way the parts fit.”
― Frank Sinatra

“Life for the Italians was what it was, no more and no less, an interlude between meals”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone

“You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
― Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone