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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.
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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the conversation whipped gaily around the table like rags in a high wind.
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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 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 people who say you are not facing reality actually mean that you are not facing their idea of reality
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My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.
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Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.
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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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In practice, there is nothing especially dramatic in people getting along well together.
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Americans (I, I'm afraid, among them) go around carelessly assuming they're tolerant the way they go around carelessly saying, 'You ought to be in pictures.' But in the clinches, they turn out to be tolerant about as often as they turn out to be Clark Gable.
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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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This year's blasphemy is next year's liberating truth.
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Life itself, however, flows and is sequential and punishes those who try to compartmentalize it.
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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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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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Father's snoring grows to sound increasingly like a vacuum cleaner in heat.
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Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.
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The integration of the Negro into American society is one of the most exciting challenges to self-development and self-mastery that any nation of people ever faced.
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