"We have a new class in this country: the deserving rich. ... The deserving rich do nice things for each other. Comforting the unafflicted is something that comes naturally to them."

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Source : Mary McGrory, Phil Gailey (2006). “The Best of Mary McGrory: A Half-Century of Washington Commentary”, p.97, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Mary McGrory

#Country Quotes #Nice Quotes #Class Quotes

“Republicans have been losing the war of words for years now. Now they are just caving because they don't even want to try. I don't agree with that approach.”
“I think politics is the biggest lever of change in India.”
“Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.”
“Lot's of marriages don't last as long as Queen have been together.”
“I am not my own light unto myself.”

Source : "Dialogues on Metaphysics". Book by Nicolas Malebranche, Dialogue III, 1688.
“Topography is one of my chief themes in my poetry..about the country, the suburbs and the seaside... then there come's love... and increasingly; the fear of death.”

Source : Radio Talk on BBC Third Programme, 1949.
“There's always another story. There's more than meets the eye.”

Source : W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.86, DEBOLS!LLO
“One time at the University of Colorado, at a faculty dinner, this professor said to me, 'Well, my goodness, a boy from Appa-lay-chee-a with a Ph.D!' The dinner was in her house. And I said, 'My grandparents didn't have indoor plumbing, but they had more books in their house than you do.' I was a little insulted by the Appa-lay-chee-a business.”

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