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• I feel as if God had, by giving the Sabbath, given fifty-two springs in every year.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Spring, Years, Giving

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• Who's counting? It was, of course, the minority who were counting. It always is. Most of the women I know today would dearly like to use their fingers and toes for some activity more enthralling than counting. They have been counting for so long. But the peculiar problem of the new math is that every time we stop adding, somebody starts subtracting. At the very least (the advanced students will understand this) the rate of increase slows. ... The minority members of any group or profession have two answers: They can keep score or they can lose.

  Ellen Goodman

  Math, Long, Racism

  Ellen Goodman (1990). “Making Sense”, Penguin Group USA

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• In How to Be an American Housewife Margaret Dilloway creates an irresistible heroine. Shoko is stubborn, contrary, proud, a wonderful housewife and full of deeply conflicted feelings. I wanted to shake her, even as I was cheering her on, and this cunningly structured novel allowed me to do both. It also took me on two intricate journeys, from post-war Japan and the shadow of Nagasaki to contemporary California, and from motherhood to daughterhood and back again. A profound and suspenseful debut.

  Margot Livesey

  Cheer, War, Motherhood

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• The only merciful thing about drug abuse is the speed with which it devastates you. Alcoholics can take decades to destroy themselves and everyone they touch. The drug addict can accomplish this in a year or two. Of course, suicide is even more efficient.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Suicide, Years, Drug

  Rita Mae Brown (2011). “Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers' Manual”, p.32, Bantam

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• Guilt is a Jewish invention improved upon by Christians for the last two thousand years.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Christian, Years, Guilt

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• I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Romantic Love, Looks, Too Much

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Venus Envy”, p.174, Bantam

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• [On why she doesn't exercise:] If I tried to jog with these boobs, I'd end up with two black eyes.

  Dolly Parton

  Fitness, Eye, Exercise

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• I am honored to have had two Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions made from my novels - Silver Bells and Follow the Stars Home.

  Luanne Rice

  Stars, Home, Silver Bells

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• [On being overweight:] If I tried to haul ass, I would have to make two trips.

  Dolly Parton

  Weight, Ass, Haul

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• Sex is good for about two years, and then you need love.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Sex, Years, Needs

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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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• Years ago when a man began to notice that if he stood up on the subway he was immediately replaced by two people, he figured he was getting too fat.

  Jean Kerr

  Men, Years, People

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• In merest prudence men should teach . . .
  That science ranks as monstrous things
  Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings--
  E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.

  Henry Austin Dobson

  Angel, Men, Wings

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• There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other, a vice.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Contentment, Firsts, Vices

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1825). “Works”, p.169

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• a straight line is the shortest possible line between any two points - an axiom equally true in morals as in mathematics.

  Maria Edgeworth

  Lines, Morality, Mathematics

  Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth (1822). “Works”, p.306

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• Know the difference between Giant and Jumbo? Between two-ounce and a big two-ounce? Between a quart and a full quart? What's a tall 24-inch? What does Extra Long mean? Who's kidding who?

  Marya Mannes

  Mean, Differences, Long

  Marya Mannes (1964). “But Will it Sell?”

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• Coupling doesn't always have to do with sex ... Two people holding each other up like flying buttresses. Two people depending on each other and babying each other and defending each other against the world outside. Sometimes it was worth all the disadvantages of marriage just to have that: one friend in an indifferent world.

  Erica Jong

  Sex, People, Flying

  Fear of Flying ch. 10 (1973)

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• there are two kinds of humanity, those who dream and those who don't, and both tend to despise, or to tolerate, the other.

  Doris Lessing

  Dream, Humanity, Kind

  Doris Lessing (2010). “Stories”, p.471, Vintage

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• On the news two dozen events of fantastically different importance are announced in exactly the same tone of voice. The voice doesn't discriminate between a divorce, a horse race, a war in the Middle East.

  Doris Lessing

  Horse, War, Divorce

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• I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.

  Gertrude Stein

  Couple, Married, Married Couples

  Gertrude Stein, Carl Van Vechten (1995). “Last Operas and Plays”, p.75, Taylor & Francis

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• Among the reasons marriages fail, sex ranks no higher than fourth, behind money, having only one bathroom, and an inability to communicate, reasons one, two and three.

  Bette Davis

  Sex, Inability, Three

  Bette Davis (2017). “This 'n That”, p.40, Hachette UK

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• Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

  Philip James Bailey

  Crush, Sorrow, Able

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• I devoutly believe that there is no difficulty between two people for which both are not responsible.

  Margaret Mead

  Believe, Responsibility, People

  Margaret Mead, Margaret Mary Caffrey, Patricia A. Francis (2006). “To Cherish the Life of the World: Selected Letters of Margaret Mead”, p.191, Basic Books

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• [Mary Wortley Montagu] wrote more letters, with fewer punctuation marks, than any Englishwoman of her day; and her nephew, the fourth Baron Rokeby, nearly blinded himself in deciphering the two volumes of undated correspondence which were printed in 1810. Two more followed in 1813, after which the gallant Baron either died at his post or was smitten with despair; for sixty-eight cases of letters lay undisturbed ... 'Les morts n'écrivent point,' said Madame de Maintenon hopefully; but of what benefit is this inactivity, when we still continue to receive their letters?

  Agnes Repplier

  Punctuation Marks, Eight, Nephew

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• It was stated, . . . that the value of architecture depended on two distinct characters:--the one, the impression it receives from human power; the other, the image it bears of the natural creation.

  John Ruskin

  Character, Bears, Architecture

  John Ruskin (1849). “The Seven Lamps of Architecture”, p.94

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