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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
Writer
Yonkers
New York State
Thinking
Decent
English
Opinion
Doe
Persons
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Misfortune
Something
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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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it is a waste of time to ask more of people than they have to give.
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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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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 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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Example is better than precept.
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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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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 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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you have to realize the white-supremacy boys are spoiled children. 'I want my way,' they scream, and like all spoiled children, they advance no justification for it except that it is their way.
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American business, while it does not frown on helping the human race, frowns on people who start right in helping the human race without first proving that they can sell things to it.
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I am living with a rising generation which talks like people coming out of ether.
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Listening to Britons dining out is like watching people play first-class tennis with imaginary balls.
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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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A business society, therefore, always has in its children a large group of individuals who cannot make money and who do not understand (or want to understand) the profit motive. In short, they are subversives.
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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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Reality is above all else a variable, and nobody is qualified to say that he or she knows exactly what it is. As a matter of fact, with a firm enough commitment, you can sometimes create a reality which did not exist before.
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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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