"everyone old enough to have a secret is entitled to have some place to keep it."

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Source : Judith Martin (2002). “Miss Manners' Guide to Rearing Perfect Children”, p.161, Simon and Schuster

Judith Martin

#Secret Quotes #Enough Quotes

“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”
“Judging others will avail you nothing and injure you spiritually. Only if you can inspire others to judge themselves will anything worthwhile have been accomplished. When you approach others in judgment they will be on the defensive. When you are able to approach them in a kindly, loving manner without judgment they will tend to judge themselves and be transformed.”
“There is no barrier to success which diligence and perseverance cannot hurdle.”
“Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.”
“Sure, I get angry. I get very, very angry and indignant. I don't like being locked up for something I didn't do, and I don't like my liberty taken away, and I don't like being treated like an animal, and I don't like people walking around and ogling me like I'm some sort of weirdo, because I'm not.”
“Talking to your hairdresser is almost like talking to your therapist,”
“She looked at me for real and saw I was serious. She saw I knew she was for me like you know that tomorrow morning the sun will rise.”
“Cars are like rolling diaries, metal and plastic and paint tableaux of the last ten years of their drivers' lives ... every dent, every drooping slice of chrome, has a story behind it.”

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