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Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Harriet Martineau: Laws and customs...

Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and...

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Abigail Van Buren: People who fight...

Abigail Van Buren: People who fight...

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

Source: Universal Press...

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Marya Mannes: It's never what...

Marya Mannes: It's never what...

It's never what you say, but how you make it sound sincere.

Source: In The...

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Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Dorothy Parker: Seventy-two suburbs in...

Seventy-two suburbs in search of a city.

Source: Of Los Angeles, but others are...

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Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Barbara Walters: Success can make...

Success can make you go one of two ways. It can make you a prima donna -- or it can smooth the edges, take away the...

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Joan Crawford: What people want...

Joan Crawford: What people want...

What people want me to be.

Source: When asked, What do YOU want to be?; in American...

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Marsha Norman: There are things...

Marsha Norman: There are things...

There are things that music can do that language could never do, that painting could never do, or sculpture. Music is...

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May Swenson: The summer that...

May Swenson: The summer that...

The summer that I was ten --
Can it be there was only one summer that I was ten? It must
have been a long one...

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Billie Holiday: I can't stand...

Billie Holiday: I can't stand...

I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or ten years. If you...

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Bette Midler: Writing a book...

Bette Midler: Writing a book...

Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five...

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Dinah Shore: I have never...

Dinah Shore: I have never...

I have never thought of participating in sports just for the sake of doing it for exercise or as a means to lose...

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Doris Day: DAY: I have...

Doris Day: DAY: I have...

DAY: I have a good job, a lovely apartment, I go out with very nice men to the best places, the finest restaurants,...

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Julie Andrews: Perseverance is failing...

Julie Andrews: Perseverance is failing...

Perseverance is failing nineteen times and succeeding the twentieth.

Source: From...

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Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Enid Bagnold: Dead news like...

Dead news like dead love has no phoenix in its ashes.

Source: National Velvet/...

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Elizabeth II: We lost the...

Elizabeth II: We lost the...

We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding...

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Gertrude Stein: One does not...

Gertrude Stein: One does not...

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

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Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom...

A little kingdom I possess,
Where thoughts and feelings dwell;
And very hard the task I find
Of governing it...

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Louisa May Alcott: A faithful friend...

Louisa May Alcott: A faithful friend...

A faithful friend is a strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure.

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Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

Lois McMaster Bujold: All virtues come...

All virtues come down to courage, at the sharp end of the sword. But courage must be tempered by prudence. Courage...

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Mary Stewart: But I have...

Mary Stewart: But I have...

But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power -- they fear even the slightest and least likely threat...

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