Dorothy Dix Quotes
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Nobody wants to kiss when they are hungry.
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in proportion as my own discomfort has increased, my conviction of necessity to search into the wants of the friendless and afflicted has deepened. If I am cold, they too are cold; if I am weary, they are distressed; if I am alone, they are abandoned.
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Confession is always weakness. The grave soul keeps its own secrets, and takes its own punishment in silence.
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It is a queer thing, but imaginary troubles are harder to bear than actual ones.
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
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A man usually values that most for which he has labored; he uses that most frugally which he has toiled hour by hour and day by day to acquire.
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You never saw a very busy person who was unhappy.
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I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.
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To a woman who claimed she'd rather be dead than unconfined and unfashionable. My dear, if you continue to lace as tightly as you do now, you will not long have the privilege of choice. You will be both dead and out of fashion.
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Society, during the last hundred years, has been alternately perplexed and encouraged, respecting the two great questions -how shall the criminal and pauper be disposed of, in order to reduce crime and reform the criminal on the one hand, and, on the other, to diminish pauperism and restore the pauper to useful citizenship?
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But the truth is the highest consideration.
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The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
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There isn't a single human being who hasn't plenty to cry over, and the trick is to make the laughs outweigh the tears.
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I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion.
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Be of good cheer, for sadness cannot heal the national wounds.
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Brains are still unfashionable for women to wear, and it has always been proof of women's superiority that the more intelligent a man is, the more women admire him, while the bigger fool a woman is, the more men run after her.
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The tapestry of history has no point at which you can cut it and leave the design intelligible.
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Man is not made better by being degraded; he is seldom restrained from crime by harsh measures, except the principle of fear predominates in his character; and then he is never made radically better for its influence.
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I think even lying on my bed I can still do something.