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• Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.

  Betty Smith

  People, Quarrels

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• What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Thinking, People, Together

  Ellen Glasgow (1935). “Vein of Iron”

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• There are only two bad things in this world, sin and bile.

  Hannah More

  Evil, World, Sin

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• In this universe we are given two gifts: the ability to love and the ability to question. Which are, at the same time, the fires that warm us and the fires that scorch us.

  Mary Oliver

  Fire, Ability To Love, Given

  Mary Oliver (2000). “Winter Hours: Prose, Prose Poems, and Poems”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Conscience and reputation are two things. Conscience is due to yourself, reputation to your neighbour.

  Saint Augustine

  Reputation, Dues, Neighbour

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• Sometimes, with luck, we find the kind of true friend, male or female, that appears only two or three times in a lucky lifetime, one that will winter us and summer us, grieve, rejoice, and travel with us.

  Barbara Holland

  Friendship, Summer, True Friend

  Barbara Holland (1996). “One's Company: Reflections on Living Alone”

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• There are three signs of old age: loss of memory ... I forget the other two.

  Red Skelton

  Memories, Humorous, Loss

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• Of two evils, had not an author better be tedious than superficial! From an overflowing vessel you may gather more, indeed, than you want, but from an empty one you can gather nothing.

  Hannah More

  Evil, May, Want

  Hannah More (1840). “The Miscellaneous Works of Hannah More”, p.474

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• Recreational talking is, along with private singing, one of our saddest recent losses. Like singing, talking has become a job for trained professionals, who are paid considerable sums of money to do it on television and radio while we sit silently listening or, if we're truly lonely and determined, call the station and sit holding the phone waiting for a chance to contribute our two cents' worth.

  Barbara Holland

  Lonely, Jobs, Loss

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• I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

  Anne Tyler

  Writing, Doors, Long

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• Calumny is a monstrous vice: for, where parties indulge in it, there are always two that are actively engaged in doing wrong, and one who is subject to injury. The calumniator inflicts wrong by slandering the absent; he who gives credit to the calumny before he has investigated the truth is equally implicated. The person traduced is doubly injured--first by him who propagates, and secondly by him who credits the calumny.

  Herodotus

  Party, Calumny Is, Indulge In

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• Two-thirds of my energies go in trying to save one-third for work.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Trying, Energy, Thirds

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.116, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• No one, but no one, ever behaves 'well' in bed unless they love or are loved - two conditions seldom fulfilled.

  Francoise Sagan

  Bed, Wells, Behave

  "Scars on the Soul". Book by Françoise Sagan, translated by Joanna Kilmartin, 1974.

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• good people managers are likely to listen more than they speak. Perhaps that's why we were given two ears and only one mouth.

  Mary Kay Ash

  People, Listening, Ears

  Mary Kay Ash (2009). “The Mary Kay Way: Timeless Principles from America's Greatest Woman Entrepreneur”, p.43, John Wiley & Sons

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• Those who say theory and practice are two unrelated realms are fools in one and scoundrels in the other.

  Ayn Rand

  Practice, Fool, Scoundrels

  Ayn Rand (1997). “Letters of Ayn Rand”, p.711, Penguin

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• What is a body that casts no shadow? Nothing, a formlessness, two-dimensional, a comic-strip character. If I deny my own profound relationship with evil I deny my own reality. I cannot do, or make; I can only undo, unmake.

  Ursula K. Le Guin

  Character, Reality, Evil

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• I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

  Jane Wagner

  Failure, Night, Ships

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• Nature, who permits no two leaves to be exactly alike, has given a still greater diversity to human minds. Imitation, then, is a double murder; for it deprives both copy and original of their primitive existence.

  Madame de Stael

  Diversity, Mind, Murder

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• two things do me in: one's chocolate cake, the other's hypocrisy.

  Roseanne Barr

  Cake, Hypocrisy, Chocolate

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• The citadel of Machaerus rose east of the Dead Sea on a basalt Peak shaped like a cone, girdled by four deep valleys; two about its sides, one in front, and the fourth behind.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Book, Sea, Rose

  Gustave Flaubert, Arthur Sydney McDowall (2004). “Three Tales”, p.62, Courier Corporation

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• When television families aren't gathered around the kitchen table exchanging wisecracks, they are experiencing brief but moving dilemmas, which are handily solved by the youngest child or by some cute extraterrestrial houseguest. Emerging from Family Ties or My Two Dads, we are forced to acknowledge that our own families are made up of slow-witted, emotionally crippled people who would be lucky to qualify for seats in the studio audience of JEOPARDY!

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Cute, Children, Dad

  Barbara Ehrenreich (1990). “WORST YEARS OF OUR LIVES”, Pantheon

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• Poetry interprets in two ways: it interprets by expressing, with magical felicity, the physiognomy and movements of the outward world; and it interprets by expressing, with inspired conviction, the ideas and laws of the inward world of man's moral and spiritual nature. In other words, poetry is interpretative both by having natural magic in it, and by having moral profundity.

  Matthew Arnold

  Spiritual, Men, Law

  Matthew Arnold (1875). “Essays in Criticism”, p.128, London : [s.n.]

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• I don't think it's natural for two people to swear to be together for the rest of their lives.

  Jane Fonda

  Marriage, Thinking, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Such is the nature of the marriage relation that a breach once made cannot be healed, and it is the height of folly to waste one's life in vain efforts to make a binary compound of two diverse elements. What would we think of the chemist who should sit twenty years trying to mix oil and water, and insist upon it that his happiness depended upon the result of the experiment?

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Marriage, Thinking, Oil And Water

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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• The moment you decide that you're a grownup now, and therefore must put away foolish things like staying out all night or cruising down strange highways is the moment you will lose that ineffable glow of youth. If you don't believe me, look around. Study those people who would rather go to shopping malls than dance halls, who think the height of depravity is bidding two no trump with only fifteen points. Every single one of these people has a stringy neck.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Believe, Thinking, Night

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