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the best of all good friends is pride.
Gertrude Atherton
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Gertrude Atherton
Age: 90 †
Born: 1858
Born: January 14
Died: 1948
Died: June 14
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Non-Fiction Writer
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San Francisco County
California
Gertrude Franklin Atherton
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Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
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when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.
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Nursing is not only a natural vocation for a woman, but an occupation which increases her matrimonial chances about eighty per cent.
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Writing was my real life and I was more at home with the people of my imagination than with the best I met in the objective world.
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I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.
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genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.
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the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
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orthodoxy is a fixed habit of mind. The average man and woman hug their orthodoxies and spit their venom on those that outrage them.
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The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.
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A long while ago an eager group of reformers wrote to me asking if I could suggest anything that would improve the morals of the American people. I replied that the trouble with the American people in general was not lack of morals but lack of brains.
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there is only one thing we do know and that is that we do not know anything.
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... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.
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... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.
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Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.
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The only real rival of love is Art, for that in itself is a deep personal passion, its function an act of creation, fed by some mysterious perversion of sex, and demanding all the imagination's activities.
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It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.
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Self-admiration giveth much consolation.
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There is nothing so carking as the pangs of unsatisfied curiosity.
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there is no greater fraud or bore than the writer who has acquired the art of saying nothing brilliantly.
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