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Mrs. Wiggs was a philosopher, and the sum and substance of her philosophy lay in keeping the dust off her rose-colored spectacles.

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Alice Hegan Rice
Age: 72 †
Born: 1870
Born: January 11
Died: 1942
Died: February 10
Novelist
Writer
Shelbyville
Kentucky
Alice Caldwell Hegan
Substance
Keeping
Philosopher
Lays
Dust
Rose
Philosophy
Spectacles
Reality
Colored

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There is no doubt about it that it is more difficult for a woman to follow a career than for a man. Through the centuries his time has been considered more valuable, and he has consequently been excused from wrestling with many of 'life's minor damnabilities.
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It seems a strange fact that it is almost more important for us to be happy ourselves than to try to make other people happy. By being happy we confer untold benefits upon our fellow men.
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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure.
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Half of our sorrows come from setting exalted standards for people and then breaking our hearts when they fail to live up to them.
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Metaphysicians tell us that it is easier to get the body well than to get the mind to realize its wellness.
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All the higher forms of life have evolved from some one's ideal of justice, liberty or beauty and the belief that nothing is too good to be true.
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Taking friendships for granted is one of the surest ways of ending them. Unless nourished, they tend to wither and die. Unless we earnestly desire its continuance we should never start a friendship any more than we would a love affair.
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It'll be with me like it was with Uncle Ned's ole ox, I reckon he kep' a-goin' an' a-goin' till he died a-standin' up, an' even then they had to push him over.
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What can people not accomplish if they will but master the secret of steadfast perseverance.
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The fact that beauty is at one and the same time without cost and above price, robs it of the curse of possessiveness.
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There is an invariable law that the only way to keep the real things of life is by sharing them or giving them away.
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Joy is at its keenest when contrasted with sorrow, courage at its height when it follows fear, faith at its noblest when it grows from doubt.
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we sometimes forget the influence of action upon thought. ... Smile, whistle, sing, play the part you want to be until you become the part you play.
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Solitude, if rightly used, becomes not only a privilege but a necessity. Only a superficial soul fears to fraternize with itself.
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The arbitrary division of one's life into weeks and days and hours seemed, on the whole, useless. There was but one day for the men, and that was pay day, and one for the women, and that was rent day. As for the children, every day was theirs, just as it should be in every corner of the world.
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Somehow, I never feel like good things b'long to me till I pass 'em on to somebody else.
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The hardest grief is often that which leaves no trace.
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It ain't no use putting up your umbrella till it rains.
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even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.
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