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1. "Gossip is never fatal until it is denied. Gossip goes on about every human being alive and about all the dead that are alive enough to be remembered, and yet almost never does any harm until some defender makes a controversy. Gossip's a nasty thing, but it's sickly, and if people of good intentions will let it entirely alone, it will die, ninety-nine times out of a hundred." ~ Booth Tarkington
2. "Mothers see the angel in us because the angel is there. If it's shown to the mother, the son has got an angel to show, hasn't he? When a son cuts somebody's throat the mother only sees it's possible for a misguided angel to act like a devil - and she's entirely right about that!" ~ Booth Tarkington
3. "...at twenty-one or twenty-two so many things appear solid and permanent and terrible which forty sees are nothing but disappearing miasma. Forty can't tell twenty about this; that's the pity of it! Twenty can find out only by getting to be forty." ~ Booth Tarkington
4. "Thus began the Great Tar Fight..." ~ Booth Tarkington
5. "Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age." ~ Booth Tarkington
6. "An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband." ~ Booth Tarkington
7. "So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some." ~ Booth Tarkington
8. "Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions." ~ Booth Tarkington
9. "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
10. "Some day the laws of glamour must be discovered, because they are so important that the world would be wiser now if Sir Isaac Newton had been hit on the head, not by an apple, but by a young lady." ~ Booth Tarkington
11. "There aren't any old times. When times are gone they're not old, they're dead! There aren't any times but new times!" ~ Booth Tarkington
12. "Nobody has a good name in a bad mouth. Nobody has a good name in a silly mouth either." ~ Booth Tarkington
13. "It is love in old age, no longer blind, that is true love. For the love's highest intensity doesn't necessarily mean it's highest quality." ~ Booth Tarkington
14. "Youth cannot imagine romance apart from youth. That is why the roles of the heroes and heroines of plays are given by the managers to the most youthful actors they can find among the competent." ~ Booth Tarkington
15. "There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagarian Eastern travelers, glancing from car windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying comparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without." ~ Booth Tarkington
16. "As with husbands and wives, so with many fathers and daughters, and so with some sons and mothers: the man will himself be cross in public and think nothing of it, nor will he greatly mind a little crossness on the part of the woman; but let her show agitation before any spectator, he is instantly reduced to a coward's slavery. Women understand that ancient weakness, of course; for it is one of their most important means of defense, but can be used ignobly." ~ Booth Tarkington
17. "We debate sometimes what is to be the future of this nation when we think that in a few years public affairs may be in the hands of the fin-de-siecle gilded youths we see about us during the Christmas holidays. Such foppery, such luxury, such insolence,was surely never practiced by the scented, overbearing patricians of the Palatine, even in Rome's most decadent epoch. In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom." ~ Booth Tarkington
18. "Like so many women for whom money has always been provided without their understanding how, she was prepared to be a thorough and irresponsible plunger." ~ Booth Tarkington
19. "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. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls." ~ Booth Tarkington
20. "My theory on literature is an author who does not indulge in trashiness-writes about people you could introduce into your own home...he did not care to read a book or go to a play about people he would not care to meet at his own dinner table. I believe we should live by certain standards and ideals..." ~ Booth Tarkington

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