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So here it is at last, the distinguished thing!
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So it has come at last—the Distinguished Thing.
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The time-honored bread sauce of the happy ending.
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However British you may be, I am more British still.
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The ever importunate murmur, "Dramatize it, dramatize it!"
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My choice is the old world — my choice, my need, my life.
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I don't care anything about reasons, but I know what I like.
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Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.
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To read between the lines was easier than to follow the text.
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Tell the boys to follow, to be faithful, to take me seriously.
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A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it.
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Money's a horrid thing to follow, but a charming thing to meet.
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It takes a great deal of history to produce a little literature.
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One doesn't defend one's god: one's god is in himself a defense.
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I could come back to America…to die—but never, never to live.
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There is no difficulty in beginning; the trouble is to leave off!
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An Englishman is never so natural as when he's holding his tongue.
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Cats and monkeys — monkeys and cats — all human life is there!
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Since she might not be splendid, she would at least be immaculate.
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In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.
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There's no more usual basis of union than a mutual misunderstanding.
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New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire.
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To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.
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The black and merciless things that are behind the great possessions.
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It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.
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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:
April 15, 1843
Died:
February 28, 1916
(aged 72)
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