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Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

Marilyn vos Savant: The length of...

The length of your education is less important than its breadth, and the length of your life is less important than...

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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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Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Diane Trilling: Pleasure was not...

Pleasure was not the principle of our home. I learned early in life that to laugh before breakfast was to cry before...

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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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Amelia Barr: The great difference...

Amelia Barr: The great difference...

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on...

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Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Amelia Barr: Whatever the scientists...

Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the...

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Carry Nation: Men are nicotine...

Carry Nation: Men are nicotine...

Men are nicotine soaked, beer besmirched, whiskey greased, red-eyed devils.

Source:...

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Clara McBride Hale: If you can't...

Clara McBride Hale: If you can't...

If you can't hold [children] in your arms, please hold them in your heart.

Source:...

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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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Virginia Woolf: It is in...

Virginia Woolf: It is in...

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

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Peggy Noonan: Great speeches have...

Peggy Noonan: Great speeches have...

Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together...

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Anne Frank: The final forming...

Anne Frank: The final forming...

The final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.

Source: The...

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Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

Erma Bombeck: The suburbs were...

The suburbs were discovered, quite by accident, one day in the early 1940's by a Welcome Wagon lady who was...

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Maya Angelou: Talent is like...

Maya Angelou: Talent is like...

Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it. You can plug into it and light up a lamp, keep...

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Maya Angelou: I love to...

Maya Angelou: I love to...

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick...

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Marion Woodman: It takes great...

Marion Woodman: It takes great...

It takes great courage to break with one's past history and stand alone.

Source:...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

Mary Pettibone Poole: He who laughs,...

He who laughs, lasts.

Source: In 1,911 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, ed. Robert...

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Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

Kate Chopin: I wonder if...

I wonder if anyone else has an ear so tuned and sharpened as I have, to detect the music, not of the spheres, but of...

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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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