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The world has become too full of many things, an overfurnished room.
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Words are the only arteries of thought our poor human body possesses.
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Words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.
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I dislike being an anvil for the hammering out of other people's virtues.
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Your real progressives are never fair: they are never sufficiently neutral.
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It is better to be passionate than to be tolerant at the expense of one's soul.
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One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.
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Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.
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The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.
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The most ominous of fallacies — the belief that things can be kept static by inaction.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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This is excellence—the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
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Fair and unfair are among the most influential words in English and must be delicately used.
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It is not badness, it is the absence of goodness, which, in Art as in Life, is so depressing.
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It is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.
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To feel, and think, and learn - learn always: surely that is being alive and young in the real sense
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Tolerance cannot afford to have anything to do with the fallacy that evil may convert itself to good.
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I do like people who have not yet made up their minds about everything, who in fact are still receiving
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Advertisement... has brought our disregard for truth into the open without even a fig leaf to cover it.
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Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to do it rightly is an art like any other.
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An absolute condition of all successful living, whether for an individual or a nation, is the acceptance of death.
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The true call of the desert, of the mountains, or the sea, is their silence—free of the networks of dead speech.
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Things good in themselves... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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She had a genius for forgetting her own mistakes as well as other people's, which is in its way a form of generosity.
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No written law has ever been more binding than unwritten custom supported by popular opinion.
Carrie Chapman Catt
Freya Stark
Born:
January 31, 1893
Died:
May 9, 1993
(aged 100)
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