Minna Antrim Quotes

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Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.

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The drama of life begins with a wail and ends with a sigh.

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Enthusiasms, like stimulants, are often affected by people with small mental ballast.

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A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of moral indigestion.

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An epigram is a flashlight of a truth; a witticism is truth laughing at itself.

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Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice.

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The bond of matrimony is only as strong as its weakest half.

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Bigamy is nothing to a woman. She is wedded to her art and a man simultaneously.

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During a quarrel, to have said too little may be mended; to have said too much, not always.

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At twenty, men love women; at forty, girls; at fifty, themselves.

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It is usually true that 'a good son makes good husband,' but don't risk your happiness upon a maxim.

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Marriage is a lottery in which all women are eager to take a chance.

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A man murmurs 'Who came before me?' A woman asks 'Who will come after me?'

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None do we hate so heartily as those who try to use us, unless it may be those whom we try in vain to use.

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Debt is the sort of bedfellow who is forever pulling all the covers his way.

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Cowards are not invariably liars, but liars are invariably cowards.

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A kiss is the outward visible sign of an inward fever.

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Love never dies quite suddenly. He complains a great deal before expiring.

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Women cannot always love men who love them, but they always admire their taste.

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Throaty hawkings and nasal trumpetings are pardonable only when the performer is alone.

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Between flattery and admiration there often flows a river of contempt.

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Brew me a cup for a winter's night.
For the wind howls loud and the furies fight;
Spice it with love and stir it with care,
And I'll toast our bright eyes,
my sweetheart fair.

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To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction.

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'Tis not the noisiest things that announce the direst calamities. The awful is often voiceless.

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Never take a woman's arm unless you are in an advanced state of decrepitude. If she wishes to take yours, she will do so.

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Be polite. Perhaps your family won't mind if you practice on them.

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Show me one who boasts continually of his 'openness,' and I will show you one who conceals much.

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Experience has no text books nor proxies. She demands that her pupils answer to her roll-call personally.

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There is a politeness so terrible, that rage beside it is balm.

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To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbor is genius.

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