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Marjorie Benton Cooke
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“There's nothing so unreliable as figures, and everybody but a mathematician knows that. Figures lie right to your face.”
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“I never think over my mistakes. I just live up to them. ”
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“Youth makes no compromise with life. It demands all, passionately; loses all, or wins, with anguish of spirit. ”
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“... until you learn that an artist cannot afford to scorn any phase of life that is human, you will never do great work. ”
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“... creation, like vengeance, is God's. It is dangerous when man tampers with it.”
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“The surest way of being considered eccentric is just to be yourself. So few of us have the nerve. ”
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“The companionship of a secret is often corruptive to good habits, such as sleep and appetite.”
Marjorie Benton Cooke, U.S. writer, playwright
(1876 - 1920)