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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.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
Author
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
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Men
Vital
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Truly
Along
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Knowledge
Women

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Ah, snug lie those that slumber Beneath Conviction's roof. Their floors are sturdy lumber, Their windows weatherproof. But I sleep cold forever And cold sleep all my kind, For I was born to shiver In the draft from an open mind.
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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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People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.
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The human animal needs a freedom seldom mentioned, freedom from intrusion. He needs a little privacy as much as he wants understanding or vitamins or exercise or praise.
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Children from ten to twenty don't want to be understood. Their whole ambition is to feel strange and alien and misinterpreted so that they can live austerely in some stone tower of adolescence, their privacies unviolated.
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Time is the thief you cannot banish.
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Behind every myth lies a truth beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
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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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Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
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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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Not reading poetry amounts to a national pastime here.
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Let others, worn with living / And living's aftermath, / Take Sleep to heal the heart's distress, / Take Love to be their comfortress, / Take Song or Food or Fancy Dress, / But I shall take a Bath.
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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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The mass of men live lives of quiet exasperation.
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Sometimes I have a notion that what might improve the situation is to have women take over the occupations of government and trade and to give men their freedom.
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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.
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Kindness is a virtue neither modern nor urban. One almost unlearns it in a city. Towns have their own beatitude they are not unfriendly they offer a vast and solacing anonymity or an equally vast and solacing gregariousness. But one needs a neighbor on whom to practice compassion.
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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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