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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
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Humans
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Lovers
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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shop-talk of the scientist, and the consolation of the housewife, wit, tycoon and intellectual. It begins in the nursery and ends when speech is past.
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I have read that during the process of canonization the Catholic Church demands proof of joy in the candidate, and although I have not been able to track down chapter and verse I like the suggestion that dourness is not a sacred attribute.
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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Love or perish we are told and we tell ourselves. The phrase is true enough so long as we do not interpret it as Mingle or be a failure.
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Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
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Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with one man.
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People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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How happy is the Optimist / To whom life shows its sunny side / His horse may lose, his ship may list, / But he always sees the funny side.
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Of course we women gossip on occasion. But our appetite for it is not as avid as a man s. It is in the boys gyms, the college fraternity houses, the club locker rooms, the paneled offices of business that gossip reaches its luxuriant flower.
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God know that a mother need fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul.
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.
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Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.
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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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A bookworm in bed with a new novel and a good reading lamp is as much prepared for pleasure as a pretty girl at a college dance.
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Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
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