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History must always be taken with a grain of salt. It is, after all, not a science but an art.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage; it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such — as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association — the going will be hard indeed.
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Borrow my umbrellas, my clothes, my money, and I will likely not think of them again. But borrow my books and I will be on your track like a bloodhound until they are returned.
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The little vices bring relaxation; and a bit of trash now and then is good for the severest reader. It provides that necessary roughage in the literary diet.
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No candidate too pallid,
No issue too remote,
But it can snare
A questionnaire
To analyze our vote.
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Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but passé. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man's. It is in the boys' gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
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Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.
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'Noel,' he pipes, 'Noel, Noel.'
Some wag beats tempo with a ruler.
And the plump blonde from Personnel
Is sick behind the water cooler.
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Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
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Ah! some love Paris,
And some Purdue.
But love is an archer with a low I.Q.
A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity.
So I'm in love with
New York City.
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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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Cocktail parties... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
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But compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.
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For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.
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Women, I contend, are not men's equals in anything except responsibility. We are not their inferiors, either, or even their superiors. We are quite simply different races.
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Rain is my lover, my apple strudel.
It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle.
Beyond the seas or across the nation,
It follows me faithful on every vacation.
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Tomorrow will come and today will pass,
But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
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We might as well give up the fiction
That we can argue any view.
For what in me is pure Conviction
Is simple Prejudice in you.
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The more I see
Of the Pekinee,
The more I am fond of people.
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I've been out where the Blues begin,
Stopping at home with my kith and kin,
Where the handclasp's firm, and the smile is humorous,
And Family Friends are a bit too numerous.
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How happy is the Optimist
To whom life shows its sunny side
His horse may lose, his ship may list,
But he always sees the funny side.
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O, merry is the optimist,
With the troops of courage leaguing.
But a dour trend
In any friend
Is somehow less fatiguing.
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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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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
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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