Sydney, Lady Morgan famous quotes
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The playful kitten, with its pretty little tigerish gambols, is infinitely more amusing than half the people one is obliged to live with in the world.
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Architecture is the printing-press of all ages, and gives a history of the state of the society in which it was erected, from the cromlech of the Druids to those toy-shops of royal bad taste
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You see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination
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Amiability is very often a weakness, but the most unobjectionable one as a rule.
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Race and temperament go for much in influencing opinion.
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The influence of woman will ever be exercised directly in all good or evil. Give her, then, such light as she is capable of receiving.
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It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.
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Vulgarity is setting store by the things which are seen.
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No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens.
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It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more.
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You were a stray cat, strutting so free and full of pride. But I could see your open wound. And without really thinking I just chalked it up to another cool thing about you. I never realized how much you hurt.
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Say, Nana... You look like stray cat, wild and proud. But I can see the wound in your heart. At the time I just thought it was cool. I never realized how hurt you were.
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Every time a boy falls off a tricycle, every time a black cat has gray kittens, every time someone stubs a toe, every time there's a murder or a fire or the marines land in Nicaragua, the police and the newspapers holler 'get Capone.'
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Our political problem now is "Can we, as a nation, continue together permanentlyforever--half slave, and half free?" The problem is too mighty for me. May God, in his mercy, superintend the solution.
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All too often people concentrate on finding the right spouse, little realizing that half of any marriage is being the right spouse.
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Paul Newman's half Jewishand Florence Henderson's half, tooPut them together,What a fine looking Jew!
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I spent 24 and a half years in prison
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