Elizabeth Hoyt Quotes
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Covetousness is the greatest misfortune. One who does not know what is enough will never have enough.
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You should keep dogs-fine animals-sagacious.
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I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
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Since the age of 14, I have littered – excuse me, adorned – the Internet with Taylor Swift analyses.
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No one wants to give up time with their family or entertainment, so they give up sleep instead.
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I never get the girl. I wind up with a country instead. They said all I was good for was playing Indians.
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No man is above the law.
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Actually, I think business women are better women at home, if you want to know the truth because you do understand what goes into a day's work out in the world, a very nerve-racking affair.
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Youth is a clearer witness to the world.
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It is one of the perceptual defects of Western government and press to assign Western-style motives to what people do in non-Western societies, as if these are universally relevant.
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Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.
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The Roman Catholic Church is for saints and sinners alone - for respectable people, the Anglican Church will do.
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The body - the cage - is everything of the most respectable - but through the bars, the wild animal looks out.
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We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture.
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Oh, my dear, this is worse than I expected! A strange girl is always a bore among good friends, but one can generally manage her. But a girl who writes books - why, it isn't respectable! And you can't snub that sort of people; they're unsnubbable.
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Wherefore the heart and the diaphragm are particularly sensitive, they have nothing to do, however, with the operations of the understanding, but of all these the brain is the cause.
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Everyone gets the devil he deserves.
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But I intend to make you respectable.
