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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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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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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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Those wearing Tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.
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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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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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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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Behind every myth lies a truth beyond every legend is reality, as radiant (sometimes as chilling) as the story itself.
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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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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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The trouble with gardening is that is does not remain an avocation. It becomes an obsession.
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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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Happiness puts on as many shapes as discontent, and there is nothing odder than the satisfaction of one's neighbor.
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These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
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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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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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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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Ah! some love Paris, / And some Purdue. / But love is an archer with a low I.Q. / A bold, bad bowman, and innocent of pity. / So I'm in love with / New York City.
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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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