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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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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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... 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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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 real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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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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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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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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The idea is that inside every human being, however unprepossessing, there is a glorious, talented, and overwhelmingly attractive personality. Nonsense. Inside each of us is a mess of unruly, primitive impulses, and these can sometimes, under the strenuous self-discipline and dedication of art, result in notable creativity.
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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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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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Example is better than precept.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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In a business society, the role of sex can be summed up in five pitiful little words. There is money in 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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Living in England, provincial England, must be like being married to a stupid but exquisitely beautiful wife.
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