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• New York has always prided itself on its bad manners. That is the real source of our strength.

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  New York, Real, Manners

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• genius must ever be imperfect. Life is not long enough nor slow enough for both brain and character to grow side by side to superhuman proportions.

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  Character, Long, Brain

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• her age was that indeterminate mixture of everlasting youth and anticipated wisdom which is the glory and the curse of genius.

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  Age, Genius, Mixtures

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• The French are a race of individuals. There is no type.

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  Race, France, Individual

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• stoicism is the fundamental characteristic of the French.

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  Fundamentals, France, Stoicism

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• fiction is not only the historian of life but its apologist.

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  Fiction, Historian

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• Fame compensates for a column of wants.

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  Want, Fame, Columns

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• The world, and the great and free United States in particular, is full of narrow-minded, ignorant, moronic, bigoted, cowardly, self-righteous, anemic, pig-headed, stupid, puritanical, hypocritical, prejudiced, fanatical, cocoa-blooded atavists, who soothe their inferiority complex by barking their hatred of anything new.

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  Stupid, Pigs, Self

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• ... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

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  Irony, Life Is, Forget

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• It took me some time to learn that although every one secretly cherishes the ambition to be 'put in a book,' no one is ever satisfied with anything save incense, butter, and honey, unrelieved by salt or spice.

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  Book, Ambition, Spices

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• Whether you fail or set the world on fire cannot make so very much difference if only you have the opportunity to try for it, to work for it, to think of nothing else!

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  Opportunity, Thinking, Fire

  Gertrude Atherton (1925). “The Crystal Cup”

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• Oh, what is young love! The urge of the race. A blaze that ends in babies or ashes.

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  Baby, Race, Young Love

  Gertrude Atherton (2012). “Black Oxen”, p.117, Broadview Press

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• ... France is the genius among nations.

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  Genius, France, Nations

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• Every leader of a great revolution is a fanatic and a Jesuit.

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  Leader, Revolution, Jesuit

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• [Alexander] Hamilton estimated portrait painters as thieves of time.

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  Portraits, Thieves, Hamilton

  Gertrude Atherton (1902). “The Conqueror: Being the True and Romantic Story of Alexander Hamilton”, G.N. Morang

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• In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

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  Men, Soul, Tails

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• No matter how hard a man may labor, some woman is always in the background of his mind. She is the one reward of virtue.

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  Men, Mind, May

  gertrude atherton (1916). “the conqueror”

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• I have come to the conclusion that the modern interpretation of the Declaration of Independence is something like this: I am as good as those that think themselves better and a long sight better than those who only think themselves as good.

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  Thinking, Sight, Long

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• ... books are too heterogeneous an interest to furnish a vital one in life, a reason for being alive.

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  Book, Alive, Reason

  Gertrude Atherton (1908). “The Californians”, p.80, Library of Alexandria

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• I see no present solution of a great and intricate problem but that the rich should realize their duty to the poor.

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  Problem, Realizing, Rich

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• It is a pretty trick of authors to make nature ever in sympathy with man, but as a matter of fact she seldom is.

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  Men, Matter, Facts

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• Better extirpate the whole breed, root and branch. And this, unless the German people come to their senses, is what we propose to do.

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  Roots, People, Branches

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