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Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

Helen Keller: No pessimist ever...

No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or open a new heaven to the...

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Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

Julia Child: It's so beautifully...

It's so beautifully arranged on the plate -- you know someone's fingers have been all over...

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Anne Frank: We all live...

Anne Frank: We all live...

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the...

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Phyllis Battelle: The general rule...

Phyllis Battelle: The general rule...

The general rule is that people who enjoy life also enjoy marriage.

Source: Hearst...

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Martha Gellhorn: People may correctly...

Martha Gellhorn: People may correctly...

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his...

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Marge Piercy: A new idea...

Marge Piercy: A new idea...

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces
More commonly it's modeled of baling wire and acne.
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Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

Jane Welsh Carlyle: The surest way...

The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of...

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Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Colette Dowling: Relationships are like...

Relationships are like a dance, with visible energy racing back and forth between partners. Some relationships are the...

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Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

Suzanne LaFollette: What its children...

What its children become, that will the community become.

Source: In Words of Women...

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Ann Landers: If you want...

Ann Landers: If you want...

If you want to catch trout, don't fish in a herring barrel.

Source: In The...

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Anita Brookner: You never know...

Anita Brookner: You never know...

You never know what you will learn till you start writing. Then you discover truths you never knew...

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Judith Martin: The invention of...

Judith Martin: The invention of...

The invention of the teenager was a mistake. Once you identify a period of life in which people get to stay out late...

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Judith Martin: If you can't...

Judith Martin: If you can't...

If you can't be kind, at least be vague.

Source: Miss Manners.
-- Judith Martin,...

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Judith Martin: When a society...

Judith Martin: When a society...

When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly...

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Florida Scott-Maxwell: You need to...

Florida Scott-Maxwell: You need to...

You need to claim the events in your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done,...

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Anne Frank: One must apply...

Anne Frank: One must apply...

One must apply one's reason to everything here, learning to obey, to shut up, to help, to be good, to give in, and I...

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Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

Harriet Tubman: Yes, John saw...

Yes, John saw de City. Well, what did he see? He saw twelve gates, didn't he? Three of dose gates was on . . . de...

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Liz Smith: No matter who...

Liz Smith: No matter who...

No matter who you are or what you plan to do in life, learn to type!

Source: In...

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Pamela Hansford Johnson: There are few...

Pamela Hansford Johnson: There are few...

There are few things more disturbing than to find, in somebody we detest, a moral quality which seems demonstrably...

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Gail Parent: Actually, I have...

Gail Parent: Actually, I have...

Actually, I have only two things to worry about now: afterlife and reincarnation.

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