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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 real nature of an ethic is that it does not become an ethic unless and until it goes into action.
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I was so embarrassed I could feel my nerves curling like bacon over a hot fire.
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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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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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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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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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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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the role of the Do-Gooder is not what actors call a fat part.
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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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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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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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the whole flavor and quality of the American representative government turns to ashes on the tongue, if one regards that government as simply an inferior and rather second-rate sort of corporation.
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