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Smokers, male and female, inject and excuse idleness in their lives every time they light a cigarette.
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Jealousy leaves no time to be bored; does it even leave time to grow old?
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Look for a long time at what pleases you, and for a longer time at what pains you.
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It's nothing to be born ugly. Sensibly, the ugly woman comes to terms with her ugliness and exploits it as a grace of nature. To become ugly means the beginning of a calamity, self-willed most of the time.
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You remind me of people who bring along a little box of cakes and leave it in the hall, saying to themselves: 'There'll be plenty of time to produce these later,' and then pick them up again when they go.
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The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.
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It's terrible to think, as I do every time I begin a book, that I no longer have, and never have had, any talent.
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The writer who loses his self-doubt, who gives way as he grows old to a sudden euphoria, to prolixity, should stop writing immediately: the time has come for him to lay aside his pen.
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It takes time for the absent to assume their true shape in our thoughts. After death they take on a firmer outline and then cease to change.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
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Born:
January 28, 1873
Died:
August 3, 1954
(aged 81)
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