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Please to put a nickel,
Please to put a dime.
How petitions trickle
In at Christmas time!
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Oh, high is the price of parenthood,
And daughters may cost you double.
You dare not forget, as you thought you could,
That youth is a plague and a trouble.
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Sisters are always drying their hair.
Locked into rooms, alone,
They pose at the mirror, shoulders bare,
Trying this way and that their hair,
or fly importunate down the stair
To answer the telephone.
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Sticks and stones are hard on bones.
Aimed with angry art,
Words can sting like anything.
But silence breaks the heart.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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Scratch any father, you find
Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors,
Believing change is a threat.
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For the hearts of nurses are solid gold,
But their heels are flat and their hands are cold,
And their voices lilt with a lilt that's falser
Than the smile of an exhibition waltzer.
Yes, nurses can cure you, nurses restore you,
But nurses are bound that they do things for you.
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One applauds the industry of professional philanthropy. But it has its dangers. After a while the private heart begins to harden. We fling letters into the wastebasket, are abrupt to telephoned solicitations. Charity withers in the incessant gale.
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy quite as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.
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The more I see
Of the Pekinee,
The more I am fond of people.
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Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away.
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Love or perish" we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as "Mingle or be a failure.
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Mere wealth, I am above it,
It is the reputation wide,
The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride
That eagerly I covet.
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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Always on Monday morning the press reports God as revealed to His vicars in various guises — Benevolent, stormy, patient, or out of sorts. God knows which God is the God God recognizes.
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Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfactions of one's neighbor.
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I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse
And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house.
We've a fair-to-middlin' family; we take the middle view;
So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.
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In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path!
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Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.
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A successful party is a creative act, and creation is always painful.
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Sons do not need you.
They're always out of your reach;
Walking strange waters.
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Wherever conversation's flowing,
Why must I feel it falls on me
To keep things going?
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Women like other women fine. The more feminine she is, the more comfortable a woman feels with her own sex. It is only the occasional and therefore noticeable adventuress who refuses to make friends with us.
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Dumbledore: It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.
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Phyllis McGinley
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Born:
March 21, 1905
Died:
February 22, 1978
(aged 72)
Bio:
Phyllis McGinley was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life.
Known for:
Saint-watching (1969)
The plain princess (1945)
The Most Wonderful Doll in the World (1950)
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1956)
A pocketful of wry (1940)
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