"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.“
-Phyllis McGinley
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