"Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause."
-Phyllis McGinley
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"Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!“
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"Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure."
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"Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone."
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"In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime."
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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."
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"Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man."
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"The Supreme Court has ruled that they cannot have a nativity scene in Washington, D.C. This wasn't for any religious reasons. They couldn't find three wise men and a virgin."
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-Shirley Temple
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"The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live."
-George Carlin
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"The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value."
-Charles Dudley Warner
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"I love Christmas. Frosty the Snowman, peace on Earth and mangers, Salvation Army bell ringers and reindeer, the movie 'Meet Me in St. Louis,' office parties and cookies."
-Mo Rocca
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