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Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.
Mignon McLaughlin
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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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Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.
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We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
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Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
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Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
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Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.
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Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.
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Men enjoy being thought of as hunters, but are generally too lazy to hunt. Women, on the other hand, love to hunt, but would rather nobody knew it.
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Nobody knows the trouble we've seen-but we keep trying to tell them.
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What you can't get out of, get into wholeheartedly.
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The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
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As we grow older, our capacity for enjoyment shrinks, but not our appetite for it.
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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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