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History's like a story in a way: it depends on who's telling it.
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Beware of feelings, Father. They are the biggest liars in us. They make truth what we want it to be.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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The law is above the law, you know.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
It's a great wonder to me, the Irish attachment to our history. What is it but a series of lamentations?
Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
Flattery makes fools of the best of us.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
No one who likes a song lacks congeniality.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
Don't sell your soul to buy peanuts for the monkeys.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis -
I don't approve the informality in the world today, Mr. James. It's made strangers of us all.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis
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We reveal more of ourselves in the lies we tell than we do when we try to tell the truth.
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There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another.
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Very often adverse criticism goes to craft, and that sounds an alarm to which attention should be paid.
Dorothy Salisbury Davis