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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Harper Lee: Shoot all the...

Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a...

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Jane Austen: A large income...

Jane Austen: A large income...

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Source: In The...

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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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Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Suzanne Curchod Necker: Worship your heroes...

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them.

Source: In The Speaker's...

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Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

Catherine Drinker Bowen: For your born...

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right...

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Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

Marsha Sinetar: You may feel...

You may feel like dwelling on your limits or your fears. Don't do it. A perfect prescription for a squandered,...

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Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Julia Ward Howe: Disarm, disarm. The...

Disarm, disarm. The sword of murder is not the balance of justice. Blood does not wipe out dishonor, nor violence...

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Alice James: I make it...

Alice James: I make it...

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty...

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Dorothy Height: The black woman...

Dorothy Height: The black woman...

The black woman had had to struggle against being a person of great strength.

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Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

Dolores Huerta: We criticize and...

We criticize and separate ourselves from the process. We've got to jump right in there with both...

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Dorothy Day: In fact, to...

Dorothy Day: In fact, to...

In fact, to this very day, common sense in religion is rare, and we are too often trying to be heroic instead of just...

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Mary Pettibone Poole: There are no...

Mary Pettibone Poole: There are no...

There are no old people nowadays; they are either 'wonderful for their age' or dead.

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Rebecca West: The point is...

Rebecca West: The point is...

The point is that nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the...

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Dorothea Brande: All that is...

Dorothea Brande: All that is...

All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to -- act as if it were impossible to...

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Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Helena Petrova Blavatsky: Help Nature and...

Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators . . . she will lay bare before...

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Pearl Bailey: The first and...

Pearl Bailey: The first and...

The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.

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Fanny Brice: Let the world...

Fanny Brice: Let the world...

Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you...

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Mary Antin: Such creatures of...

Mary Antin: Such creatures of...

Such creatures of accident are we, liable to a thousand deaths before we are born. But once we are here, we may create...

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Jeane Kirkpatrick: All of us...

Jeane Kirkpatrick: All of us...

All of us confront limits of body, talent, temperament. But that is not all. We are, all of us, also constrained by...

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