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Mrs. Stuart Menzies
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“... undoubtedly if you think yourself a worm you soon become one.”
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“No public character can escape without criticism, just and unjust ...”
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“Arithmetic in politics is not much more useful than politics in arithmetic.”
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“... it is a mistake to think we can make people happy in our way. Every one must be happy in his own.”
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“... when we find ourselves face to face with finance and conscience, what are we to do? For they are both charming things, but they will not mix.”
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“... white lies are to social life what oil is to machinery — a necessity for easy and beneficial results.”
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“We all try to obey the Ten Commandments presented ... as well as the many other Biblical laws, but the only one that I have seen joyfully obeyed is 'Be fruitful and multiply,' and this has filled the world with madness, hunger, misery and disease.”
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“History warns us that it is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and end as superstitions ...”
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“It is the fashion of the moment to lay bare upon the public dissecting-table our own lives, and, in worse taste, the lives of our husbands, children and friends.”
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“I was rather youthful in the days when I had opportunities of studying Gladstone, but I thought, as others have done, that he charmed more than convinced.”
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“... in politics, it seems, there are so many who have fish to fry, while there are only a limited number of frying-pans ...”
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“I suppose it is true that nations get the politicians they deserve.”
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“We all know the eleventh commandment, 'Thou shalt not be found out' ...”
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“Never allow yourself to say, 'I can't do this or that, I am too old.' If you do, your convictions will engrave themselves on your face and bring stiffness to your limbs.”
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“It is rather curious how when we are young we think we are old, and when we arrive at our second childhood begin to think we are quite young.”
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“What ages us most is having time to speculate whether we are happy or not, for we usually come to the conclusion that we are not happy.”
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“No beating of her wings, however frenzied, can save her child a single pain, she cannot even make it happy, cannot ward off the bitterness of life's experiences as the child grows older. No mother-love can keep away death — not that death is terrible, but the dying often is.”
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“How can we call ourselves free when we cannot choose our own parents, or the temperaments bestowed on us at birth?”
Mrs. Stuart Menzies, English writer
(1856 - ?)
Full name: Amy Charlotte Bewicke Menzies.