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“Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.”
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“The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.”
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“Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?”
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“Your house is your home only when you feel you have jurisdiction over the space.”
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“One of the quickest ways to become exhausted is by suppressing your feelings ...”
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“It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.”
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“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the full attention to the object. Teaching should have no aim but to prepare, by training the attention, for the possibility of such an act. All the other advantages of instruction are without interest.”
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“If a kiss could be seen I think it would look like a violet.”