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"Raise your thoughts, not your fists."

"If you hit a Talib with your shoe, then there would be no difference between you and the Talib. You must not treat others with cruelty and that much harshly, you must fight others but through peace and through dialogue and through education."
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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."


"Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same."


"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."


"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."


"Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child."


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