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“I’m good for about thirty bucks,” I said. “Then I’ll have to get a refill from petty cash.”
“There’s nothing petty about cash,” Stew said.
p. 51
"But it is the old story of new generations refusing to be bound by the promises of their forefathers."
p. 46
“I’ve made my choice, Sam,” she had written. “I had to choose between what I wanted and what I could get. There are times when the ideal is just too unattainable and when the second best becomes, in the long run, the best. Maybe this also has a universal application. I hope so.”
p. 153
"Truth is not altered by belief or disbelief."
p. 148
"There are some forms of knowledge which it is unwise to spread; men are not yet ready to handle them."
p. 147
We’ll jump off that bridge when we come to it.
p. 19
"We have been but little molested, for we have not the things which most men value."
p. 145
It is a funny thing that for most men the whitest conscience is no protection from some apprehension in the presence of the police.
p. 83
"I guess——" she said, wistfully—"I guess the only thing that's wrong with children is that they grow up to be people like you."
p. 40
She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while being indistinguishable.
p. 99
"The fact that we don't know how to do it doesn't prove its impossibility."
p. 127
"Doubtless the first arrow did not kill a lion."
p. 158







