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Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

Mary Ritter Beard: While it is...

While it is generally agreed that the visible expressions and agencies are necessary instruments, civilization seems...

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Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Politeness is the...

Anne Louise Germaine de Stael: Politeness is the...

Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.

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Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: It is with...

Francoise d'Aubigne de Maintenon: It is with...

It is with enterprises as with striking fire; we do not meet with success except with reiterated efforts, and often at...

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Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Edith Hamilton: Theories that go...

Theories that go counter to the facts of human nature are foredoomed.

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Meridel Le Sueur: Hard times ain't...

Meridel Le Sueur: Hard times ain't...

Hard times ain't quit and we ain't quit.

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Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is sometimes...

Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco: It is sometimes...

It is sometimes the man who opens the door who is the last to enter the room.

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Louise Nevelson: What we call...

Louise Nevelson: What we call...

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more...

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Jinger Heath: Your success depends...

Jinger Heath: Your success depends...

Your success depends on your ability to dream and follow through on those dreams.

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Anita Roddick: There is no...

Anita Roddick: There is no...

There is no scientific answer for success. You can't define it. You've simply got to live it and do...

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Sydney Biddle Barrows: I was naughty....

Sydney Biddle Barrows: I was naughty....

I was naughty. I wasn't bad. Bad is hurting people, doing evil. Naughty is not hurting anyone. Naughty is being...

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Emily Post: Manners are a...

Emily Post: Manners are a...

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no...

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Amy Vanderbilt: We must learn...

Amy Vanderbilt: We must learn...

We must learn which ceremonies may be breached occasionally at our convenience and which ones may never be if we are...

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Leontyne Price: You should always...

Leontyne Price: You should always...

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era; it should never leave...

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Catherine the Great: I may be...

Catherine the Great: I may be...

I may be kindly, I am ordinarily gentle, but in my line of business I am obliged to will terribly what I will at...

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Mary Todd Lincoln: I am convinced,...

Mary Todd Lincoln: I am convinced,...

I am convinced, the longer I live, that life & its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed [as] when we are...

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Lana Turner: A successful man...

Lana Turner: A successful man...

A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a...

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Aphra Behn: He that knew...

Aphra Behn: He that knew...

He that knew all that ever learning writ,
Knew only this -- that he knew nothing yet.


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Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

Frances Watkins Harper: The true aim...

The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul,...

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Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

Nelly Sachs: O the chimneys...

O the chimneys
On the ingeniously devised habitations of death
When Israel's body drifted as smoke
Through...

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Jessie Redmon Fauset: She thought then...

Jessie Redmon Fauset: She thought then...

She thought then of black people . . . . And she saw them as a people powerfully, almost overwhelmingly endowed with...

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