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“Mrs. D. is resolved to marry the old greasy curate. She was always High Church to an excessive degree.”
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“... true socialism is the equalization of all privileges. The power to take advantage of them, — that is another matter ...”
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“April is a promise of what's to come.”
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“Rome is the city above all cities which loses most of its meaning to those who do not bring to it some historical sense, a decent knowledge of art, and a good amount of time. Rome therefore is particularly disturbing to an American.”
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“Those on the search for a good shock have been trying to undo the greatest etiquette advance of our age, the condemnation of bigotry. When the nostalgic moan about the decline of etiquette, Miss Manners turns contrary and points out that it is only recently that frank expressions of prejudice have become socially unacceptable. That lascivious and bigoted statements no longer pass uncensured is enormous progress. To be sure, there are people who cannot spell and who therefore equate censureship with censorship. They do not understand that an etiquette rule is not the same as a law and that disapproval and the desire to keep rude people at a distance are not the same as throwing them in jail.”
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“I minded my own business, and, unfortunately, so did everyone else.”
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“The past isn't useful until its place in the present is found.”
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“The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.”