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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.
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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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A mother's hardest to forgive. Life is the fruit she longs to hand you Ripe on a plate. And while you live, Relentlessly she understands you.
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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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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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O, merry is the Optimist, With the troops of courage leaguing. But a dour trend In any friend Is somehow less fatiguing.
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There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper in being both bountiful and provident.
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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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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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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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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
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If childhood is still a state, it is now chiefly a state of confusion.
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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
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Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.
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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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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.
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