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George Eliot: How could a...

George Eliot: How could a...

How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he...

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George Eliot: There are many...

George Eliot: There are many...

There are many victories worse than a defeat.

Source: In Webster's Electronic...

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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: One half of...

Jane Austen: One half of...

One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

Source: Emma,...

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Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Helen Hunt Jackson: Wounded vanity knows...

Wounded vanity knows when it is mortally hurt; and limps off the field, piteous, all disguises thrown away. But pride...

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Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Emily Blackwell: Our school education...

Our school education ignores, in a thousand ways, the rules of healthy development.

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Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

Rona Barrett: The healthy, the...

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his...

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Erma Bombeck: It is fast...

Erma Bombeck: It is fast...

It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the...

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Erma Bombeck: I take a...

Erma Bombeck: I take a...

I take a very practical view of raising children. I put a sign in each of their rooms: Checkout Time is 18...

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Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Susan B Anthony: Cautious, careful people,...

Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputations. . . can never effect a...

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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: Resolve to keep...

Helen Keller: Resolve to keep...

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy shall form an invincible host against difficulty.

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Helen Keller: When we do...

Helen Keller: When we do...

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of...

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Dorothy Parker: As only New...

Dorothy Parker: As only New...

As only New Yorkers know, if you can get through the twilight, you'll live through the...

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Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

Dorothy Parker: I was fired...

I was fired from there, finally, for a lot of things, among them my insistence that the Immaculate Conception was...

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Dorothy Parker: Most good women...

Dorothy Parker: Most good women...

Most good women are hidden treasures who are only safe because nobody looks for them.

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Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Lady Marguerite Blessington: Friends are the...

Friends are the thermometer by which we may judge the temperature of our fortunes.

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Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Susan Sontag: Fear of sexuality...

Fear of sexuality is the new, disease-sponsored register of the universe of fear in which everyone now...

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Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Rebecca Harding Davis: Be just --...

Be just -- not like man's law, which seizes on one isolated fact, but like God's judging angel, whose clear, sad eye...

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Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

Helen Rowland: After marriage, a...

After marriage, a woman's sight becomes so keen that she can see right through her husband without looking at him, and...

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