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Phyllis McGinley

"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!"

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"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."
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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
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"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
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"When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion."
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
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