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" A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away. "
Hobby
Keeps
Day
" 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. "
Gentleman
Baby
Train
" Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man. "
Important
Men
Man
" Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same. "
Race
Same
Gossip
" In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime. "
Poetry
Reading
National
" Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful. "
Marriage
Pretty
Woman
" Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause. "
Success
Yesterday
Defeated
" Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure. "
Peace
Body
Healing
" Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point. "
Children
Intelligence
Great
" Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time! "
Put
Nickel
How
" Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child. "
Child
Thing
Praise
" Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all. "
Gall
Than
Seventy
" Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone. "
Trying
Alone
Mirror
" Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable. "
Call
Wearing
Other
" When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion. "
Opinion
Mind
Me
" Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart. "
Silence
Anything
Heart
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