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Marjorie Carleton
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“The previous owner had achieved that paradox, taste without imagination.”
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“By its very essence power can't be static. It must be used on or against something or someone.”
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“... death for the partridge, death for the salmon, death for the deer. How hypocritical people were, shuddering away from pain and oblivion when it was inflicted on their own kind; yet conferring that oblivion on another species as an integral part of their own vacation pleasure.”
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“The average male thinks that housework consists solely of two things: dishes and beds.”
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“... he held that the art of exposition was becoming extinct, and trusted it to no one else.”
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“No scientist knew anything about money except that he needed a lot of it and never had enough. Never.”
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“... the facial contours of youth were deceptive. ... It was only when age began to write on the face that the signature could no longer be forged.”
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“One thing is as sure as death and taxes, and that's the law of cause and effect.”
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“... why is a sleeping child so much heavier than a waking one?”
Marjorie Carleton, U.S. writer
(1897 - 1964)
Full name: Marjorie Chalmers Carleton.