John Updike
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Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.
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Truth should not be forced it should simply manifest itself, like a woman who has in her privacy reflected and coolly decided to bestow herself upon a certain man.
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Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
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The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.