You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

...'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.

He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.

We all have souls of different ages

First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humor. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and third — -before long the best lines cancel out — -and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the picture have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true.