If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends - you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue.
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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.Alice Duer Miller
The innate tendency of men to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government . . . Man's place is the armory.
Alice Duer Miller
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for you.
Alice Duer Miller
And now too late, we see these things are one; The art is sacrifice and self-control; And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.
Alice Duer Miller
Why, my dear girl, haven't you seen
What English country life can mean
With too small an income to keep the place
Going?
Alice Duer Miller
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