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A great moment raises most of the people who experience it, to its own level; and that is why they do not always recognize its greatness — or their own.
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I notice that when people have no sense of responsibility, you call them either criminals or geniuses.
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Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.
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There's one thing that always interests me about you good people, not your certainty that the rest of us are swine, — no doubt we are, — but your certainty that your opinions are pearls.
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The anger of slow, mild, loving people has a lasting quality that mere bad-tempered folk cannot understand.
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Did you ever notice, Ellen, that the truth always hurts people's feelings?
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War is wicked, because it is murder and hate. And it is foolish, because hate and murder can only destroy people's bodies, not change their minds.
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There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.
Catherine Drinker Bowen
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Born:
February 23, 1857
Died:
January 13, 1945
(aged 87)
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