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" The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror. "

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" I do not like candid pictures. They are so unattractive. "

" Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great. "

" To my mind, there was no one in the world like my father. Wherever he was, there was magic in the air. "

" My father was a great innovator in public life, but when it came to raising his daughters, no one could have been more conservative. "

" I am not going to be licked by tragedy, as life is a challenge, and we must carry on and work for the living as well as mourn for the dead. "

" It's our money, and we're free to spend it any way we please. "

" I have had quite an interesting life. My husband was quite successful in the movies, and we went out frequently with Gloria Swanson and other stars. "

" My husband changed jobs so fast that I simply never knew what business he was in. "

" Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them? "

" Sometimes a mother finds in her midst a handicapped child, one child who is abnormal mentally or physically. Then, a whole new set of baffling difficulties presents themselves, and then fervently she prays and how diligently she searches every avenue to find an answer to that child's problems. "

" My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life. "

" Life isn't a matter of milestones, but of moments. "

" Make sure you never, never argue at night. You just lose a good night's sleep, and you can't settle anything until morning anyway. "

" Modern candidates seem to have to live with political matters all the time. In my father's time, a politician's home was still his castle. "

" Now I am in my eighties, and I have known the joys and sorrows of a full life. Age, however, has its privileges. One is to reminisce, and another is to reminisce selectively. "

" As motherhood is the greatest and most natural God-given gift for women for posterity, it would seem that the birth and rearing of children, in the way which to us seems most ideal, would be the most satisfying and the most rewarding career for a woman. "

" I looked on child rearing not only as a work of love and duty but as a profession that was fully as interesting and challenging as any honorable profession in the world and one that demanded the best that I could bring to it. "

" I am just an old-fashioned girl. "

" It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies. "

" More business is lost every year through neglect than through any other cause. "

" I have come to the conclusion that the most important element in human life is faith. "

" It's wrong for parents to bury their children. It should be the other way around. "

" In my relations with my husband, there was never any deceit... he never said he was going out on business; he would say he was going to a show, and I would say, 'Fine.' "

" Sometimes I wonder if there is something about my family which invites violence. 'Is it envy,' you ask? I don't know... I've had so much, a son as president, two as senators, a son-in-law who's an ambassador... perhaps God doesn't permit that much. "

" It has been said that time heals all wounds. I don't agree. The wounds remain. Time - the mind, protecting its sanity - covers them with some scar tissue and the pain lessens, but it is never gone. "

" I know not age, nor weariness nor defeat. "

" I'm like old wine. They don't bring me out very often - but I'm well preserved. "

" I tell myself that God gave my children many gifts - spirit, beauty, intelligence, the capacity to make friends and to inspire respect. There was only one gift he held back - length of life. "