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• Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Passion, Desire

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.31, BookBaby

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• We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  People, Furniture, Motive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.45, BookBaby

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• The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Past, Entrepreneur, Special

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Men really prefer reasonably attractive women; they go after the sensational ones to impress other men.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Men, Attractive

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.52, BookBaby

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• We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Freedom, Want, Tyranny

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.87, BookBaby

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• Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Beautiful, Intelligent, Feminist

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.50, BookBaby

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• The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Ignorance, People, Knows

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Giving Up, Self, Should Have

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.57, BookBaby

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• Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Girl, Women, Heart

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.50, BookBaby

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• Once you become self-conscious, there is no end to it; once you start to doubt, there is no room for anything else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Being Yourself, Anxiety

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.70, BookBaby

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• Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Tragedy, Losing, Failing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.55, BookBaby

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• We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Character, Personality, Admire

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• Hate leaves ugly scars, love leaves beautiful ones.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Love, Beautiful, Depressing

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.54, BookBaby

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• Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Cutting, Half, Want

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.28, BookBaby

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• If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they'll stop making it tomorrow; if it's all three, they stopped making it yesterday.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Yesterday, Three, Tomorrow

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.68, BookBaby

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• Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Perfection, Littles, Tough

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.13, BookBaby

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• What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Forgiveness, Forgiving, Power Of Forgiveness

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.78, BookBaby

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• Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Witty, Sex, Revenge

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.111, BookBaby

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• There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Money, People, Literature

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• The neurotic thinks himself both Hamlet and Claudius, in a world that belongs to Polonius.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Thinking, World, Polonius

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Integrity, Vices, Ethics

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.93, BookBaby

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• The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Children, Home, Parent

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.41, BookBaby

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• In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Life, Dinner, Stuff

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• Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Confidence, Mark, Wells

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.96, BookBaby

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• If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Ifs

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.69, BookBaby

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