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Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
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the United States of America
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Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too surrounded by people who don't, you don't.
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You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.
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Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
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Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.
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Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.
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My thoughts, I guess, are bitter who but the bitter have thoughts?
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There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
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We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
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The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.
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There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
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Whatever we worship, short of God, is sure to be our undoing.
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Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest!
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We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.
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There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.
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God doesn't measure His bounty, but oh how we do!
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Creative work is one of life's greatest pleasures, and the only one we will gladly interrupt.
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