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I don't have any warm personal enemies. All the SOBs have died.
Clare Boothe Luce
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Clare Boothe Luce
Age: 84 †
Born: 1903
Born: April 10
Died: 1987
Died: October 9
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New York City
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.
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If men had to bear babies, there'd never be more than one child in a family.
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Women know what men have long forgotten. The ultimate economic and spiritual unit of any civilization is still the family.
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If old age means a crown of thorns, the trick is to wear it jauntily.
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Autobiography is mostly alibiography.
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Rich women are not too put upon by their children. You don't have to do all the things for a child that those women who had to stay at home did. My Ann had a French governess who took care of her until she was twelve years old and went off to boarding school.
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I don't think my position unusual for a woman. I'm following a perfectly natural urge to do what I like.
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In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
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Bombs know no ism but barbarism. The laws that successfully govern a peaceful and democratic society do not interfere with the only law bombs know, which is the law of gravity.
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The women who inspired this play deserved to be smacked across the head with a meat ax and that, I flatter myself, is exactly what I smacked them with.
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H. L. Mencken told me once that he answered all his mail, pleasant and unpleasant, with just one line, 'You may be right.' That's the way I feel now. It is in the realm of possibility, just barely, that I could be the one who's wrong.
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Women do generally manage to love the guys they marry more than they manage to marry the guys they love.
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Women can't have an honest exchange in front of men without having it called a cat fight.
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I am for lifting everyone off the social bottom. In fact, I am for doing away with the social bottom altogether.
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Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.
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There are no hopeless situations there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
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I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex.
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Thoughts have no sex.
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What generally passes for 'thought' among the majority of mankind is the time one takes out to rearrange one's prejudices.
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[In politics] no good deed goes unpunished
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