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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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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Bacon
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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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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... 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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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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Example is better than precept.
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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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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
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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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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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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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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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