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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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People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.
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It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.
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What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
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Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
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A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.
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After the chills and fever of love, how nice is the 98.6 degrees of marriage.
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After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed after all, he does.
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We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
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Neurotics make poor patriots if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.
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Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
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If your husband expects you to laugh, do so if he expects you to cry, don't if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?
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Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
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It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
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The neurotic listens to weather reports about Small Craft Warnings, and he thinks: They're talking about me.
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Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread the present just doesn't exist.
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We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.
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We choose those we like with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
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Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.
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Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
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Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.
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