"Disgrace does not consist in the punishment, but in the crime."

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Source : "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, (p. 148), 1922.

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“If there is a panacea, or cure-all to life, it is self love.”
“Let's face it, there are no plain women on television.”

Source : 1979 In the Observer, 23 Sep.
“I think that one of the most fundamental responsibilities is to give testimony in a court of law, to give it honestly and willingly.”
“With the other fellow actors who have gone astray, I think it's sad that society wants to label the business as doing this to people. It's really not true.”
“Like Semmering Academy, the Grove School was a Gothic pile of bricks run by 1950s-era chalk drones, which maintained its cultural viability by perpetuating a weirdly seductive anxiety throughout its community. Mary herself was a victim of the seduction; despite the trying and repetitive emotional requirements of her job, she remained eternally fascinated by the wicker-thin girls and their wicker-thin mothers, all of them favoring dark wool skirts and macintoshes and unreadably far-away expressions; if she squinted, they could have emerged intact from any of the last seven decades.”

Source : Heidi Julavits (2008). “The Uses of Enchantment”, p.14, Anchor
“Home grown tomatoes, home grown tomatoes What would life be like without homegrown tomatoes Only two things that money can't buy That's true love and home grown tomatoes.”
“The recent medical controversy over whether vaccinations cause autism reveals a habit of human cognitionâ€”thinking anecdotally comes naturally, whereas thinking scientifically does not.”
“No one should be afraid to be themselves.”

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