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Besides, there are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.	Booth Tarkington	Penrod
He had not yet learned that the only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her--especially if that is what she desires.	Booth Tarkington	Penrod
Boyhood is the longest time in life for a boy. The last term of the school-year is made of decades, not of weeks, and living through them is like waiting for the millennium.	Booth Tarkington	Penrod
Thirteen is embarrassed by the beginnings of a new colthood; the child becomes a youth. But twelve is the very top of boyhood.	Booth Tarkington	Penrod
One of the hardest conditions of boyhood is the almost continuous strain put upon the powers of invention by the constant and harassing necessity for explanations of every natural act.	Booth Tarkington	Penrod
But her correctness was of the finer sort, and had no air of being studied or achieved; conduct would never offer her a problem to be settled from a book of rules, for the rules were so deep within her that she was unconscious of them.	Booth Tarkington	Alice Adams
For the first time she was vaguely perceiving that life is everlasting movement.	Booth Tarkington	Alice Adams
"I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization--that is, in spiritual civilization."	Booth Tarkington	The Magnificent Ambersons
"Politics is a dirty business for a gentleman . . . "	Booth Tarkington	The Magnificent Ambersons
"We do keep looking ahead to things as if they'd finish something, but when we get TO them, they don't finish anything. They're just part of going on."	Booth Tarkington	Alice Adams

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