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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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It must in candor be said that his religion sat upon him lightly.
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Like building a house, travel always costs more than you estimate.
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I've got a heart like a college prom. Each one I dance with seems the best of all.
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I always felt that the boiled potato, not the Tudor rose, should be the national emblem.
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Between frivolity and intentional mischief there is little difference, none in the results.
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Young people want to look like peas in a pod, and there is no use trying to make them look different.
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Like most people who have reached the top, I think she finds that the staying is harder than the climb.
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When he said we were trying to make a fool of him I could only murmur that the Creator had beat us to it.
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Love at a distance may be poignant; it is also idealized. Contact, more than separation, is the test of attachment.
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Very few people, thank God, look like the pictures of them which are published in the papers and the weekly magazines.
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It occurred to me that we live in a lunatic world where the only way to maintain peace is to have an enormous war-making machine.
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Mrs. Honeywell was a reader, but those publishing houses demanding intellectual cooperation from the customers were not her field.
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We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.
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Next to a good meal and possibly a long night's sleep the greatest morale builder in the world, as far as women are concerned, is clothes.
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When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.
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Believe me, nothing is so calculated to lose you audience sympathy as too many tears. Move your listeners all you can but let them do the crying.
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Everything you experience is what constitutes you as a human being, but the experience passes away and the person's left. The person is the residue.
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George Moore unexpectedly pinched my behind. I felt rather honored that my behind should have drawn the attention of the great master of English prose.
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I suppose anyone who has ever written a travel book has had the experience of being accosted by a reader with blood in his eye and a lawsuit in his voice.
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The advertising agency, as it stands today, is a peculiar manifestation of American business life of the twentieth century — glossy, brash, and insecure.
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All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive my youth.
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Art, we are told, is a criterion of one's taste. How humiliating, should our taste turn out to be bad. Rather as though we were caught stark naked with a poor figure.
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The very fact that we make such a to-do over golden weddings indicates our amazement at human endurance. The celebration is more in the nature of a reward for stamina.
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People are subject to moods, to temptations and fears, lethargy and aberration and ignorance, and the staunchest qualities shift under the stresses and strains of daily life.
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We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Lady Randolph Churchill
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Born:
April 8, 1900
Died:
February 15, 1978
(aged 77)
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