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"Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle."
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"You multiply your life when you invest it."

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"You play the game to the end. That's how it works, play to the end."

"We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions."

"Do it again and again. Consistency makes the rain drops to create holes in the rock. Whatever is difficult can be done easily with regular attendance, attention and action."

"Time management is the major difference between the rich and poor."

"I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta."

"When you know every well what to do and how to do it, your attitude determines how well you will have it done!"
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"You are absolutely the most ethereal, least sensual woman I ever knew to exist without inhuman sexlessness."


"All the while she wondered if any strange good thing might come of her being in her ancestral land; and some spirit within her rose automatically as the sap in the twigs. It was unexpected youth, surging up anew after its temporary check, and bringing with it hope, and the invincible instinct towards self-delight."


"I look into my glass,And view my wasting skin,And say, 'Would God it came to passMy heart had shrunk as thin!"


"The resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible."


"I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on those he has had tender relations with, a man's heart returns closest to her who was the soul of truth in her conduct. The better class of man, even if caught by airy affectations of dodging and parrying, is not retained by them. A Nemesis attends the woman who plays the game of elusiveness too often, in the utter contempt for her that, sooner or later, her old admirers feel; under which they allow her to go unlamented to her grave."


"Altogether he was one in whom no man would have seen anything to admire, and in whom no woman would have seen anything to dislike."


"We discern a grand force in the lover which he lacks whilst a free man, but there is a breadth of vision in the free man which in the lover we vainly seek."


"It appears that ordinary men take wives because possession is not possible without marriage, and that ordinary women accept husbands because marriage is not possible without possession; with totally differing aims the method is the same on both sides. But the understood incentive on the woman's part was wanting here. Besides, Bathsheba's position as absolute mistress of a farm and house was a novel one, and the novelty had not yet begun to wear off."
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