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Booth Tarkington
American
Novelist
About the author
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,
American
Novelist
#Will
#Man
Cherish all your happy moments; they make a fine cushion for old age.
Booth Tarkington,
American
Novelist
#Old
#Age
#Moments
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,
American
Novelist
#Time
#Life
#Living
#School
#Waiting
So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.
Booth Tarkington,
American
Novelist
#Happiness
An ideal wife is any woman who has an ideal husband.
Booth Tarkington,
American
Novelist
#Wife
#Woman
#Husband
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,
American
Novelist
Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.
Booth Tarkington,
American
Novelist
#People
#Opinions
#Arguments