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Acedia is not in every dictionary just in every heart.

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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
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the United States of America
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Mankind
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If the second marriage really succeeds, the first one didn't really fail.
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Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.
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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
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We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?
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It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.
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If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.
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You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.
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If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.
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We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
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If you jot down every silly thought that pops into your mind, you will soon find out everything you most seriously believe.
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I'm afraid to win, and afraid to lose I hate a draw and can't stop competing otherwise I'm fine.
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All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.
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A doctor recently described to me benign positional vertigo: it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change vertigo to anxiety, and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.
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Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.
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What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
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Happiness is like the penny candy of our youth: we got a lot more for our money back when we had no money.
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