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• War is the antithesis of all our teaching. It breaks all the commandments; it makes rich men poor, and strong men weak. It makes well men sick, and by it living men are changed to dead men.

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  Strong, War, Teaching

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

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  Doors, Bye, People

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• Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.

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  Light, Literature, Four

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• it makes a great difference to a speaker whether he has something to say, or has to say something.

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  Differences, Speakers

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• It is often true that those who sit in the wings can see more than the players.

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  Player, Wings, Perspective

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• Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.

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  Drinking, Doors, Rallying Cry

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• War is a crime committed by men and, therefore, when enough people say it shall not be, it cannot be.

  Nellie L. McClung

  War, Men, People

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.15, University of Toronto Press

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• Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.

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  Sweet, Cake, Justice

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.42, University of Toronto Press

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• Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.

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  Wind Blowing, Wind, Alberta

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• the grief that can be turned into words soon heals.

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  Grief, Heal

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• The good is the greatest rival of the best.

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  Rivals, Goodness

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.31, University of Toronto Press

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• Chivalry is like a line of credit. You can get plenty of it when you do not need it.

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  Needs, Credit, Lines

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.41, University of Toronto Press

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• Every season of life has its compensations.

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  Life, Compensation, Seasons Of Life

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• The horse on the treadmill may be very discontented, but he is not disposed to tell his troubles, for he cannot stop to talk.

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  Horse, May, Poverty

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.45, University of Toronto Press

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• thought without expression is dynamic and gathers volume by repression. Evolution when blocked and suppressed becomes revolution.

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  Expression, Revolution, Volume

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.45, University of Toronto Press

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• In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

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  Cat, Next Day, Yellow

  Nellie L. McClung (1915). “In Times Like These”, p.44, University of Toronto Press

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• The middle years of life come on like thunder.

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  Years, Age, Thunder

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• The average reader can contemplate with considerable fortitude the sorrows and disappointments of someone else.

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  Disappointment, Compassion, Average

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