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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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A person may be totally unimaginative and have the social vision of a mole, and we still call him a decent man.
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From a purely tourist standpoint, Oxford is overpowering, being so replete with architecture and history and anecdote that the visitor's mind feels dribbling and helpless, as with an over-large mouthful of nougat.
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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
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Not being one to calculate or look ahead, I had not stopped to think, when boys started paying attention to me, that the cup might be dashed from my lips, though experience should have taught me that dashing cups from lips was the way Victorian parents got most of their exercise.
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The stress laid on upward social mobility in the United States has tended to obscure the fact that there can be more than one kind of mobility and more than one direction in which it can go. There can be ethical mobility as well as financial, and it can go down as well as up.
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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 English think of an opinion as something which a decent person, if he has the misfortune to have one, does all he can to hide.
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American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
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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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The great disadvantage of being in a rat race is that it is humiliating. The competitors in a rat race are by definition rodents.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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Example is better than precept.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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