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Phyllis McGinley
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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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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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What in me is pure conviction is simple prejudice in you.
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Say what you will, making marriage work is a woman's business. The institution was invented to do her homage it was contrived for her protection. Unless she accepts it as such --as a beautiful, bountiful, but quite unequal association --the going will be hard indeed.
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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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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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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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Of the small gifts of heaven, / It seems to me a more than equal share / At birth was given / To girls with curly hair.
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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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Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?
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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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Tomorrow will come and today will pass, / But the hearts of the young are brittle as glass.
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Sons do not need you. They are always out of your reach, Walking strange waters.
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I'm a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse / And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. / We've a fair-to-middlin' family we take the middle view / So we're manna sent from heaven to internal revenue.
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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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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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These are my daughters, I suppose. But where in the world did the children vanish?
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The knowingness of little girls, is hidden underneath their curls.
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