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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
Margaret Halsey
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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
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Yonkers
New York State
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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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It is possible to eat English piecrust, whatever you may think at first. The English eat it, and when they stand up and walk away, they are hardly bent over at all.
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people coming away from a session with Dr. S. usually looked as if they had had fifty minutes on the anvil with an apprentice blacksmith.
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I'd like somebody to breed a male, genus homo, who could go and fetch a 12 x 8 black suède purse lying in the middle of a white bedspread and not come back looking baffled and saying he couldn't find it.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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Equality is an unconscious assumption, and if you feel you are treating someone as an equal, then you are not doing it.
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you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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The soup, thin and dark and utterly savorless, tasted as if it had been drained out of the umbrella stand.
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