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Katharine Whitehorn: The great rule...

Katharine Whitehorn: The great rule...

The great rule is not to talk about money with people who have much more or much less than...

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Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

Ingrid Bengis: The real questions...

The real questions are the ones that obtrude upon your consciousness whether you like it or not, the ones that make...

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Renata Adler: Nothing defines the...

Renata Adler: Nothing defines the...

Nothing defines the quality of life in a community more clearly than people who regard themselves, or whom the...

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Shana Alexander: Letters are expectation...

Shana Alexander: Letters are expectation...

Letters are expectation packaged in an envelope.

Source: The Surprises of the Mail...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Happiness consists not...

Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little.

Source: In...

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Talent, like beauty,...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Talent, like beauty,...

Talent, like beauty, to be pardoned, must be obscure and unostentatious.

Source:...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Man forgives woman...

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Source: Naked Truth and...

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Miriam Beard: Certainly, travel is...

Miriam Beard: Certainly, travel is...

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of...

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Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Gretel Ehrlich: Honesty is stronger...

Honesty is stronger medicine than sympathy, which may console but often hides.

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Marilyn French: Fear is a...

Marilyn French: Fear is a...

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore...

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Margaret Oliphant: Oh, never mind...

Margaret Oliphant: Oh, never mind...

Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times...

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Monica Baldwin: I have always...

Monica Baldwin: I have always...

I have always felt that the moment when first you wake up in the morning is the most wonderful of the 24 hours. No...

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Anya Seton: As I grew...

Anya Seton: As I grew...

As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists...

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Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Minna Thomas Antrim: Satiety is a...

Satiety is a mongrel that barks at the heels of plenty.

Source: Naked Truth &...

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Helen Keller: College isn't the...

Helen Keller: College isn't the...

College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Source:
-- Helen Keller, (Jun 27...

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Dorothy Parker: I might repeat...

Dorothy Parker: I might repeat...

I might repeat to myself . . . a list of quotations from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn...

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Peg Bracken: When there's a...

Peg Bracken: When there's a...

When there's a lot of it around, you never want it very much.

Source: The I Hate to...

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Anita Brookner: In real life,...

Anita Brookner: In real life,...

In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was...

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Anita Brookner: The lessons taught...

Anita Brookner: The lessons taught...

The lessons taught in great books are misleading. The commerce in life is rarely so simple and never so...

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Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

Elizabeth Hardwick: The fifties --...

The fifties -- they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief...

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