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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...

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Booth Tarkington Literature People Standards

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.

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Booth Tarkington Money Women

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.

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Booth Tarkington Future Leader Youth

Men were just like sheep, and nothing was easier than for women to set up as shepherds and pen them up in a field.

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Booth Tarkington Men Men And Women Sheep

No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.

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Booth Tarkington Arrogance Heaven Sin

Whatever does not pretend at all has style enough.

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Booth Tarkington Individuality Integrity Style

Is this life?'Alice wondered, not doubting that the question was original and all her own. 'Is it life to spend your time imagining things that aren't so, and never will be? Beautiful things happen to other people; why should I be the only one they never can happen to?

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Booth Tarkington Dreaming

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!

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Booth Tarkington Mothers Sons

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.

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Booth Tarkington Gossip

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

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Booth Tarkington Long Lose Some

An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.

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Booth Tarkington Woman Wife Husband

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

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Booth Tarkington People Opinions Own
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