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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.

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
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Ether
People
Talks
Rising
Generation
Speech
Generations
Coming
Living

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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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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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The people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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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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when I spoke of having a drink, it was a euphemism for having a whole flock of them.
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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 real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
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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 role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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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 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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