"The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S's: Sincerity, Simplicity, Sympathy, and Serenity."

-- Emily Post

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“Always carry a book on a date so that when you get bored you can slip into the Ladies for a read.”
“Crazy isnÂ´t always what they say it is. ItÂ´s not always the old woman wearing sneakers and a skirt and a scarf, wandering around with a shopping cart, hollering at no one, nothing, tumbling through years in her head. No. Sometimes it is a girl wearing boots and jeans and a sweater, arms crossed in front of her, shivering, wandering through the streets at night, all night, murmuring to no one, nothing, tumbling through the strange unreal dimensions in her head.”
“Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.”
“If the entire Union Army comes across here, I will kill them all!”
“As Sokrates tells it, your story begins the moment Eros enters you. That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom, and decorum of the things inside you. As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be.”
“After all my probing into the human brain, I should still be aware of mysteries and come up with them myself.”
“Books, as Dryden has aptly termed them, are spectacles to read nature. Aeschylus and Aristotle, Shakespeare and Bacon, are priests who preach and expound the mysteries of man and the universe. They teach us to understand and feel what we see, to decipher and syllable the hieroglyphics of the senses.”
“I never wanted to get out of a place as much as I did to get out of the presidency.”

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