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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Poet
Writer
Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
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Success
Nothing
Triumphant
Like
Fails
Defeated
Yesterday
Failing
Cause

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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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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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Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.
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Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.
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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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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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Pressed for rules and verities, All i recolelct are these: Feed a cold and starve a fever. Argue with no true believer. Think-too-long is never-act. Scratch a myth and find a fact.
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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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In a successful marriage, there is no such thing as one's way. There is only the way of both, only the bumpy, dusty, difficult, but always mutual path.
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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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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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Cocktail parties ... are usually not parties at all but mass ceremonials designed to clear up at one great stroke a wealth of obligations.
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Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
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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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Mere wealth, I am above it, / It is the reputation wide, / The playwright's pomp, the poet's pride / That eagerly I covet.
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I sing Connecticut, her charms / Of rivers, orchards, blossoming ridges. / I sing her gardens, fences, farms, / Spiders and midges.
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