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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.

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
Vacuum
Increasingly
Heat
Grows
Sleep
Snoring
Sound
Cleaner
Father
Cleaners
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Vacuums

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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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The only way not to worry about the race problem is to be doing something about it yourself. When you are, natural human vanity makes you feel that now the thing is in good hands.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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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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In a business society, the emotional economy is an economy of scarcity.
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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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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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in race relations, the single gesture and the single individual are more often than not doomed to failure. Only the group and the long-term, undeviating policy make much headway. ... if you want to make the world a better place, the first thing you must accept is the fact that you cannot transcend your limitations as an individual.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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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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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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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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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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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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... 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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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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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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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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