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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My first book was a historical novel. I started writing in 1974. In those days, historical novels meant ladies with swelling bosoms on the cover. Basically, it meant historical romance. It was not respectable as a genre.
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Music is the purest form of art, and therefore the most direct expression of beauty, with a form and spirit which is one and simple, and least encumbered with anything extraneous. We seem to feel that the manifestation of the infinite in the finite forms of creation is music itself, silent and visible.
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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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I believe there is no one deeper, lovelier, more sympathetic and more perfect than Jesus.
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But I intend to make you respectable.
