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Cleveland Amory
American
Historian
About the author
I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
The facts of life are very stubborn things.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
#Life
#Facts
There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
#Childhood
The opera is like a husband with a foreign title - expensive to support, hard to understand and therefore a supreme social challenge.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
#Support
#HusbChallenge
#Opera
As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
#Time
#Patience
#Cats
#Limitations
A "good" family, it seems, is one that used to be better.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
#Family
The New England conscience does not stop you from doing what you shouldn't-it just stops you from enjoying it.
Cleveland Amory,
American
Historian
#England
#Conscience