“We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold.”
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“The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master.”
“Growing up is hard, love. Otherwise everyone would do it.”
“I will not say that your mulberry trees are dead; but I am afraid they're not alive.”
“My good opinion once lost is lost forever.”
“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”
“She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt”
“The joy of youth is to disobey; but the trouble is that there are no longer any orders.”
“Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]”
“Cities are the abyss of the human species.”
“At Genoa, the word Liberty may be read over the front of the prisons and on the chains of the galley-slaves. This application of the device is good and just. It is indeed only malefactors of all estates who prevent the citizen from being free. In the country in which all such men were in the galleys, the most perfect liberty would be enjoyed.”
“One always dies too soon or too late. And yet, life is there, finished: the line is drawn, and it must all be added up. You are nothing other than your life.”
“Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves.”
“I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful.”
“I did want to acknowledge and confirm the fact that my son does, indeed, have an autism diagnosis.”
“Without intervention today, the cost of care for adults with autism will be significantly greater and the burden will no longer lie with the parents, but on our entire society.”
“Coming out of college into the draft, being Asian-American and being from Harvard, that's not going to be an advantage because of stereotypes.”
“In my time and neighborhood (and in my soul) there was only one standard by which a woman measured success: did some man want her?”
“Where there is fear there is aggression.”
“All games contain the idea of death.”