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Nobody likes to be accused of a virtue.
Patricia Wentworth / Fiction Writer
Accused
Likes
Virtue
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Most of the things one worries about never happen.
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Happens
Worry
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It is always better to say too little than too much.
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Littles
Talking
Too Much
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happy people have got something to give to the world.
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Happiness
Giving
People
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Anger was both a disfiguring and a revealing passion.
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Anger
Passion
Revealing
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Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.
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Emotion
Share
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A lie that is half a truth is ever the hardest to fight.
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Fighting
Half
Lying
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Too much information can be as disconcerting as too little.
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Information
Littles
Too Much Information
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Any road is bound to arrive somewhere if you follow it far enough
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Bounds
Enough
Ifs
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When there is too much to say it is easier to say nothing at all.
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Easier
Talking
Too Much
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Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
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Believe
Cold
I Believe
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Money's a very serious thing - especially when you haven't got any.
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Money
Serious
Serious Things
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Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.
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Children
One Thing At A Time
Want
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it isn't good tactics to ask for something that you know will be refused.
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Favors
Knows
Tactics
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Anyone who pretends not to be interested in money is either a fool or a knave.
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Money
Fool
Knaves
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I do not approve of children being beaten. It is always a confession of failure.
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Abuse
Children
Confession
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You cannot divide minds into sexes. Each human being presents an individual problem.
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Mind
Problem
Sex
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Being in a rage was rather like being out in a thunderstorm - you couldn't hear yourself think.
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Anger
Rage
Thinking
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There is a country proverb which says, 'If you don't trouble trouble - trouble won't trouble you.
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Country
Ifs
Trouble
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... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.
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Body
Happened
Mind
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Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.
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Doe
Does It Matter
Matter
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You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.
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Feelings
Ordinary
Perfection
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Things you can't understand are always the hardest to bear. To know why is the first step to consolation.
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Bears
Firsts
Steps
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There's a general consensus of opinion that people in love are apt to look silly -- except to each other.
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Looks
People
Silly
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It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
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Confidence
Power
Smile
Men
World
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The most trying moments in human experience were those in which there was nothing to be done except to wait.
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Done
Trying
Waiting
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Once a suggestion has entered the general atmosphere of human thought, it is very difficult to neutralise it.
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Atmosphere
Ideas
Suggestions
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Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.
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Husband
Thinking
Wife
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When you've just made the most complete fool of yourself, you feel the need of a specially high horse to ride.
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Horse
Needs
Pride
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It's surprising how soon you can get used to having money. It's much easier than getting used to not having it.
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Money
Easier
Used
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when married people begin to talk about their rights, it means something has gone pretty far wrong between them.
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Mean
People
Rights
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if you cannot get what you want, common sense suggests that you should put your mind to wanting what you can get.
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Ambition
Common Sense
Mind
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One cannot withdraw from the life of the community. Injury to one member of it cannot fail to be the concern of all.
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Community
Failing
Injury
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A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
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Feelings
Found
Good Man
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there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
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Flesh
Irritation
Virtue
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Mary Stuart wrote, 'My end is in my beginning.' It is easier to agree with her than to decide what is the beginning, and what is the end.
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Easier
Ends
Mary
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My dear father always said that when everybody had a telephone nobody would have any manners, because there wouldn't be time for them. And of course he was perfectly right.
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Father
Manners
Telephones
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The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.
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Eye
Important
People
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The fact is, people who don't have any misfortunes are very irritating to their neighbours. No opportunities for popping in with condolences and new-laid eggs. No visits to the afflicted. No opportunities for the milk of human kindness to flow. Naturally it doesn't.
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Kindness
Opportunity
Condolences
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There is and always has been for me a peculiar need to write. This is very different from wanting to be a writer. To be a writer always seemed something so far removed from my talents and abilities and imaginings that it didn't afflict me at all as a notion when I was young. But I was always conscious that I wanted to write.
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Different
Peculiar
Writing
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I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit. The notion of actually putting writers' words into other words is quite ridiculous because why bother if writers mean what they mean, and if they don't, why read them? There is, I suppose, a case for studying literary works in depth, but I don't quite know what 'in depth' means unless you read a paragraph over and over again.
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Education
Mean
Thinking
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