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There is satisfaction in seeing one's household prosper in being both bountiful and provident.

Phyllis McGinley

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Phyllis McGinley
Age: 72 †
Born: 1905
Born: March 21
Died: 1978
Died: February 22
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Ontario
Oregon
Phyllis McGinley
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Provident
Bountiful
Housework
Prosper
Household
Satisfaction

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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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To be a housewife is a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
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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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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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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.
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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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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.
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Gardening has compensations out of all proportion to its goals. It is creation in the pure sense.
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Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry.
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