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Outside I am a little machine wound up; inside I am a thousand miles away, and doing a thousand other things. Some day I am going to blow up and break my inside workings, for I wasn't meant to run regular and on time. I wasn't.
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It's hard to forgive people who think they write poetry...
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Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.
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As for opinions, if they're not pleasant they'd better be kept to yourself. I learned that early in life and forget it every day.
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The place you're in is pretty near what you're fitted to fill. Otherwise you'd get out and fill another.
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We have to wear clothes, a requirement of custom, but more time, temper, character, and peace of mind, not to mention money, have been sacrificed to them than to any other altar on this green earth, and for what?
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People are generally opposed to things they know nothing about.
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I hate a conscience. It's always making you feel low down and disreputable. I don't believe I will say anything to my children about one, and let them have some peace.
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It isn't bad judgment to make a man believe he is something. He is by nature inclined to it, and a little encouragement is good for most people.
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When there's love enough you can stand anything. When there isn't, you can stand nothing. Living together every day you find out a lot you didn't know, and love can't keep still. It's got to grow or die.
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As long as I am on this little planet I expect to love a lot of people and I hope they will love me in return.
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A man would rather fail according to his own ideas than succeed according to another's.
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Every word she writes is a lie, including 'and' and 'the'.
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Born:
February 1, 1865
Died:
July 27, 1932
(aged 67)
Bio:
Kate Langley Bosher was an American novelist from Virginia, best known for her novels Mary Cary and Miss Gibbie Gault.
Known for:
Mary Cary frequently Martha, (1910)
Miss Gibbie Gault (1911)
The Man in Lonely Land (1912)
How It Happened (1914)
Kitty Canary (1918)
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