"The passion for praise, which is so very vehement in the fair sex, produces excellent effects in women of sense, who desire to be admired for that which only deserves admiration."

-- Joseph Addison

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“The reason you want your kids to pay attention in school is you haven't the faintest idea how to do their homework.”
“For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.”
“We delude ourselves into believing that morality comes from somewhere else, whereas in reality we behave as we've been told to behave.”
“She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.”
“I'm providing myself to my children. I'm loving them unconditionally, accepting them unconditionally.”

Source : "Her side of the story". "Dateline" with Ann Curry, www.nbcnews.com. February 10, 2009.
“These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one or the other, acording to his mood. He misuses them quite ruthlessly - despite the respectful way he has to talk about them in public - to put him to bed, to take his mind off the hands of the clock, to relax the nagging of his pyloric spasm, to gossip him out of his melancholy, to trigger the conditioned reflexes of his colon.”
“The only reason we don't have revival is because we are willing to live without it!”
“One time I tried to marry a chicken.”

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