Gertrude Atherton Short Quotes

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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

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Novelty, the subtlest spring of all passion.

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Nothing in life is more corroding than habit.

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Fanaticism was a more powerful combatant than avarice.

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Stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

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If you can't get the very best in this world, take nothing.

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The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

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Fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

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In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

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Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

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He always settled on the obvious like a hen on a porcelain egg.

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All women want to be understood until they understand themselves.

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The irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.

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The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

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The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

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We never care to know new people unless we are sure we shall like them.

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A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.

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No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class.

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California has all the beauties of youth as well as its idiocies and vices.

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Women love the lie that saves their pride, but never an unflattering truth.

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There is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.

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Her imagination modeled no pleasing features upon the ugly skull of matrimony.

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The world changed somewhat in form during its progress, but never in substance.

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Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago.

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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

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Power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.

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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

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The average intelligence is always shallow, and in electric climates very excitable.

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It is seldom that the imagination is disappointed in the 'ancestral piles' of England.

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