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• Nobility of birth is like a cipher; it has no power in itself, like wealth or talent; but, it tells with all the power of a cipher when added to either of the other two.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Ciphers, Ancestry, Talent

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.58

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• It would be a great advantage to some schoolmasters if they would steal two hours a day from their pupils and give their own minds the benefit of the robbery.

  John Frederick Boyes

  Teaching, Giving, Mind

  John Frederick Boyes (1859). “Life and Books: Or, Records of Thought and Reading”, p.7

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• The mystery story is two stories in one: the story of what happened and the story of what appeared to happen.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Stories, Mystery Novels, Happened

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• my crime books are actually novels and are written as such. One might even say that each one is really two novels, one of which is the story I tell the reader, and the other the buried story I know and let slip now and then into a clue to whet the reader's interest.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Book, Stories, Mystery Novels

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (1957). “The Mary Roberts Rinehart crime book”

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• The two worst sins of bad taste in fiction are pornography and sentimentality. One is too much sex and the other too much sentiment.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Sex, Fiction, Too Much

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• The 'creator' and the 'editor' - two halves of the writer whole - should sleep in separate rooms.

  Judith Guest

  Sleep, Editors, Half

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• was revolution much more than one fast kick forward in the long process called evolution? We condemened the 'cost' of revolution; but was it higher than the cost over centuries in backward, underdeveloped communities, which still covered two-thirds of the earth and which still could not guarantee their populations daily bread?

  Ella Winter

  Long, Community, Population

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• in love, gallantry is necessary. Even when the first wild desire is gone, especially then, there is an inherent need for good manners and consideration, for the putting forth of effort. Two courteous and civilized human beings out of the loneliness of their souls owe that to each other.

  Ilka Chase

  Loneliness, Effort, Soul

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• There are three things the prospective traveler to Russia does well to bear in mind. One: It is their country. Two: Most foreigners are profoundly relieved that this is so. Three: You don't have to go.

  Ilka Chase

  Country, Russia, Mind

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• when two people unite, kindness must be mutual, or shocking things will happen.

  Rosamond Lehmann

  Kindness, People, Mutual

  Rosamond Lehmann (1975). “The ballad and the source”, Harvest Books

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• The English have no imagination: and yet they do show imagination in two things - two only. In the evening-clothes worn by old ladies, and in their cafés.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Clothes, Imagination, Evening

  Natalia Ginzburg, Dick Davis (1989). “The Little Virtues”, p.24, Arcade Publishing

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• Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who have fallen from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone.

  Hedda Hopper

  Punishment, Telephones, Towns

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• The city is a cultural invention enforcing on the citizen knowledge of his own nature. And this we do not like. That we are aggressive beings, easily given to violence; that we get along together because we must more than because we want to, and that the brotherhood of man is about as far from reality today as it was two thousand years ago; that reason's realm is small; that we never have been and never shall be created equal; that if the human being is perfectible, he has so far exhibited few symptoms - all are considerations of man from which space tends to protect us.

  Robert Ardrey

  Reality, Men, Years

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• When two working people decide to marry, their federal income tax is usually increased. As soon as one spouse earns at least 20 percent of a married couple's total income, the couple pays a 'marriage tax.' ... The United States is the only major industrialized nation in the free world in which the tax cost of the second [married] earner's entry into the work force is higher than that of the first. On one hand, our government's social policy is to help working women earn equal salaries to those of men, but on the other we have a tax structure that penalizes them when they do so.

  Millicent Fenwick

  Couple, Men, Hands

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• The two best subjects for conversation are talking shop and making love.

  Phyllis Bottome

  Talking, Making Love, Conversation

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• Many actions, like the Rhone, have two sources,--one pure, the other impure.

  Augustus William Hare

  Action, Source, Motive

  Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare (1861). “Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers: From the Fifth London Ed”, p.30

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• To get that word, male, out of the Constitution, cost the women of this country fifty-two years of pauseless campaign; 56 state referendum campaigns; 480 legislative campaigns to get state suffrage amendments submitted; 47 state constitutional convention campaigns; 277 state party convention campaigns; 30 national party convention campaigns to get suffrage planks in the party platforms; 19 campaigns with 19 successive Congresses to get the federal amendment submitted, and the final ratification campaign.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Party, Equality

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• it was the United States which first established general suffrage for men upon the two principles that 'taxation without representation is tyranny' and that governments to be just should 'derive their consent from the governed.' The unanswerable logic of these two principles is responsible for the extension of suffrage to men and women the world over. In the United States, however, women are still taxed without 'representation' and still live under a government to which they have given no 'consent.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Men, Justice, Principles

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• For two generations groups of women have given their lives and their fortunes to secure the vote for the sex and hundreds of thousands of other women are now giving all the time at their command. No class of men in our own or any other country has made one-tenth the effort nor sacrificed one-tenth as much for the vote.

  Carrie Chapman Catt

  Country, Sex, Men

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• But the true evil of drink lies in the disillusion: that the initial pleasure very soon evaporates, leaving a demoralizing craving for more, which is not even temporarily pleasurable. Which then leads to deterioration of the faculties of both body and mind; plus a bewildering lack of co-operation between the two.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Lying, True Evil, Leaving

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• There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the two is more marked than nationality or belief: it is an opposite species altogether. It is against the unwritten laws of congeniality for them to mix. For me, a man who does not drink is distinctly indecent.

  Caitlin Thomas

  Drinking, Men, Law

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• Isn't it wonderful that two of the most sacred and symbolic plants, the olive and the vine, live on almost nothing, a terrace of limestone, sun and rain.

  Janet Erskine Stuart

  Rain, Vines, Sacred

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• Time is the water in which we live, and we breathe it like fish. ... Time pours into us and then pours out again. In between the two pourings we live our destiny.

  Louise Erdrich

  Time, Destiny, Water

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• Look twice at a two-faced man.

  Chief Joseph

  Men, Looks

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• Reality has actually very little to do with truth; there is no necessary connection between the two.

  Edith Hamilton

  Truth, Reality, Connections

  Edith Hamilton (1949). “Spokesmen for God: The Great Teachers of the Old Testament”

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