Country Clubs Quotes - Page 3

• You want to be free and break new ground, speak your mind, fear no man, have the neighbours acknowledge that you're a good man; and at the same time you want to be a success, make money, join the country club, get the votes and kick the other man in the teeth and off the ladder.

  Christina Stead

  Success, Country, Ambition

  Christina Stead (2012). “I'm Dying Laughing: The Humourist”, p.39, Open Road Media

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• Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.

  Sylvia Plath

  Country, Sunday, Doctors

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.120, Hamilton Books

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• In my day, they were not interested in making boys happy. Those schools were made for the types of men who would become quite successful. It was brutal. They are not brutal today. They are country clubs today.

  Louis Auchincloss

  Country, School, Successful

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