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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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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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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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Passionately prejudiced people always turn out, under scrutiny, to be people who cannot get along on a footing of equality with anyone.
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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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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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Whatever the rest of the world thinks of the English gentleman, the English lady regards him apprehensively as something between God and a goat and equally formidable on both scores.
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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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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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Example is better than precept.
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Infants, I note with envy, are receptive to enjoyment in a degree not attained by adults this side of the new Jerusalem.
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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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The real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
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Humorists are not humorous twenty-four hours a day. In fact, when you get to know them well, they are often not humorous at all. They tend to be hypersensitive, taut, neurotic creatures driven by God know what obscure compulsion to earn their living the hard way.
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The business society is interested in training its citizens to make money, and, in this objective, it is often successful. Many of them do make money, and the ones who do not obligingly regard themselves as failures who have wasted the precious gift of life.
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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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English life is seventh-eighths below the surface, like an iceberg, and living in England for a year constitutes merely an introduction to an introduction to an introduction to it.
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