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• Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

  Gloria Naylor

  Jobs, Work, Doors

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.12, Open Road Media

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• What writes worse than a Theodore Dreiser? ... Two Theodore Dreisers.

  Dorothy Parker

  Writing, Theodore

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• People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

  Dorothy Parker

  People, Young, Ought

  Quoted in The Sayings of Dorothy Parker, ed. S. T. Brownlow (1992)

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• Over the years, I've found that I either live life or write about it. I can't seem to do both simultaneously - I have to do it sequentially. When I write incessantly, I lose touch with the issues and passions that fuel the work. But when I get too involved in organizations or movement endeavors, I almost forget that I'm a writer. It's a constant struggle to find a balance between these two worlds - the solitary writing life and the life of a social justice activist.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Struggle, Live Life, Passion

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• The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade.

  Ben Jonson

  Honesty, Men, Giving

  Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1857). “The Works of Ben Jonson”, p.866

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• Affectation proceeds from one of these two causes,--vanity or hypocrisy; for as vanity puts us on affecting false characters, in order to purchase applause; so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavor to avoid censure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues.

  Henry Fielding

  Character, Vanity, Order

  Henry Fielding (2013). “Joseph Andrews and Shamela”, p.61, Simon and Schuster

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• There are two considerations which always imbitter the heart of an avaricious man--the one is a perpetual thirst after more riches, the other the prospect of leaving what he has already acquired.

  Henry Fielding

  Heart, Men, Leaving

  Henry Fielding (1783). “The Beauties of Fielding. Carefully Selected ... To which is Added Some Account of His Life”, p.2

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• Nothing can be so quick and sudden as the operations of the mind, especially when hope, or fear, or jealousy, to which the other two are but journeymen, set it to work.

  Henry Fielding

  Mind, Operations

  Henry Fielding (1861). “Tom Jones”, p.100

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• Two things are terrible in childhood: helplessness (being in other people's power) and apprehension - the apprehension that something is being concealed from us because it is too bad to be told.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  People, Childhood, Terrible

  Elizabeth Bowen (1950). “Collected Impressions”

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• The Irish landowner, partly from laziness but also from an indifferent delicacy, does not interfere in the lives of the people round. Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland, but these cannot operate the whole time: on the whole, the landowner leaves his tenants and work-people to make their own mistakes, while he makes his.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Sports, Mistake, People

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• We are all sure of two things, at least; we shall suffer and we shall all die.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Destiny, Suffering, Dies

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• To be successful a person must attempt but one reform. By urging two, both are injured, as the average mind can grasp and assimilate but one idea at a time.

  Susan B. Anthony

  Successful, Average, Ideas

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• I should dearly love that the world should be ever so little better for my presence. Even on this small stage we have our two sides, and something might be done by throwing all one's weight on the scale of breadth, tolerance, charity, temperance, peace, and kindliness to man and beast. We can't all strike very big blows, and even the little ones count for something.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Men, Blow, Two Sides

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (Illustrated)”, p.4591, Delphi Classics

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• Our two first parents, yet the only two Of mankind, in the happy garden placed, Reaping immortal fruits of joy and love, Uninterrupted joy, unrivalled love In blissful solitude.

  John Milton

  Garden, Joy, Parent

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.65-9.

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• Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate...

  Emma Lazarus

  Mother, Fate, Years

  Emma Lazarus (2014). “The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume II: Jewish Poems and Translations”, p.22, Courier Corporation

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• The soul awakes ... between two dim eternities - the eternal past, the eternal future.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Past, Soul, Eternity

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.236, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• There are two classes of human beings in this world: one class seem made to give love, and the other to take it.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Class, Giving, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2010). “The Pearl of Orr's Island”, p.111, Applewood Books

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• There are in this world two kinds of natures, - those that have wings, and those that have feet, - the winged and the walking spirits. The walking are the logicians; the winged are the instinctive and poetic.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Wings, Feet, World

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (1982). “Uncle Tom's Cabin, Or, Life Among the Lowly ; The Minister's Wooing ; Oldtown Folks”, p.704, Library of America

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• ... the belief in a superstratum of human beings ... is the most evil of all beliefs. For when you say, 'I am not as other men' -- you have lost the two most valuable qualities we have ever tried to attain: -- humility and brotherhood.

  Agatha Christie

  Humility, Men, Evil

  Agatha Christie (1951). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• But here's the sunset of a tedious day,
  These two asleep are; I'll but be undrest,
  And so to bed. Pray wish us all good rest.

  Robert Herrick

  Sunset, Wish, Bed

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• Civilization, or that which is so called, has operated two ways to make one part of society more affluent and the other part more wretched than would have been the lot of either in a natural state.

  Thomas Paine

  Civilization, Way, Natural

  Thomas Paine (1797). “Agrarian Justice, opposed to Agrarian Law, and Agrarian Monopoly. Being a plan for ameliorating the condition of man, by creating in every nation a National Fund”, p.3

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• Commerce is no other than the traffic of two individuals, multiplied on a scale of number; and, by the same rule that Nature intended the intercourse of two, she intended that of all!

  Thomas Paine

  Numbers, Individual, Traffic

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.169, Ravenio Books

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• The duty of man is not a wilderness of turnpike gates, through which he is to pass by tickets from one to the other. It is plain and simple, and consists but of two points--his duty God, which every man must feel; and, with respect to his neighbor, to do as he would be done by.

  Thomas Paine

  Simple, Men, Would Be

  Thomas Paine (2016). “The Rights of Man”, p.40, Xist Publishing

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• The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

  Marilyn vos Savant

  Real, Men, Paris

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• Everything has two handles; the one soft and manageable, the other such as will not endure to be touched. If then your brother do you an injury, do not take it by the hot hard handle, by representing to yourself all the aggravating circumstances of the fact; but look rather on the soft side, and extenuate it as much as is possible, by considering the nearness of the relation, and the long friendship and familiarity between you--obligations to kindness which a single provocation ought not to dissolve. And thus you will take the accident by its manageable handle.

  Epictetus

  Brother, Kindness, Long

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