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Mignon McLaughlin: For the happiest...

Mignon McLaughlin: For the happiest...

For the happiest life, days should he rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.

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Helen Rowland: When you see...

Helen Rowland: When you see...

When you see a married couple coming down the street, the one who is two or three steps ahead is the one that's...

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Simone de Beauvoir: What is an...

Simone de Beauvoir: What is an...

What is an adult? A child blown up by age.

Source: La Femme rompue.
-- Simone de...

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Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Beware of people...

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison: Beware of people...

Beware of people carrying ideas. Beware of ideas carrying people.

Source: In Words...

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Helen Keller: I can feel...

Helen Keller: I can feel...

I can feel the twinkle of his eye in his handshake.

Source: Reader's Digest,...

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Helen Keller: It is not...

Helen Keller: It is not...

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world.

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Helen Keller: Security is mostly...

Helen Keller: Security is mostly...

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature . . . Life is either a daring adventure or...

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Helen Keller: Unless we form...

Helen Keller: Unless we form...

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its...

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Dorothy Parker: There must be...

Dorothy Parker: There must be...

There must be courage; there must be no awe. There must be criticism, for humor, to my mind, is encapsulated in...

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Shana Alexander: When the prima...

Shana Alexander: When the prima...

When the prima ballerina found ground glass in her toe slipper . . . every other dancer in the company was equally...

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Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Naomi Wolf: Western women have...

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material...

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George Eliot: An egotist is...

George Eliot: An egotist is...

An egotist is like a cock who thinks the sun has risen to hear him crow.

Source:...

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George Eliot: Would not love...

George Eliot: Would not love...

Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?

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George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

George Eliot: Boots and shoes...

Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look...

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George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

George Eliot: Sympathetic people often...

Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own...

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George Eliot: Blessed is the...

George Eliot: Blessed is the...

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Source: In...

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George Eliot: There is no...

George Eliot: There is no...

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not...

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George Eliot: Failure after long...

George Eliot: Failure after long...

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a...

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Jane Austen: A man ....

Jane Austen: A man ....

A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter...

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Jane Austen: Friendship is the...

Jane Austen: Friendship is the...

Friendship is the finest balm for the pangs of despised love.

Source: In An...

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