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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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Every time I think I've touched bottom as far as boredom is concerned, new vistas of ennui open up.
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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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... 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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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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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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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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