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Margaret Halsey

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Margaret Halsey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1910
Born: February 13
Died: 1997
Died: February 4
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Precept
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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The important thing about human beings is not what they do, but why they do it.
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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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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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The attitude of the English towards English history reminds one a good deal of the attitude of a Hollywood director towards love.
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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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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 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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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 conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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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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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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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