Alice Morse Earle Quotes
The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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I always loved advertising. If I hadn't been in fashion, I'd have been in advertising.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks.
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I learned my French through school. I was lucky in that the tutor on 'The Wonder Years' set spoke fluent French.
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My friends like to play as me in the baseball games, and they call to tell me about every bag I steal. And you know, every time a new game comes out, I check to make sure my speed is up to par. But to me, when you talk video games, you're talking 'Madden.'
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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I don't mind being described as vanilla in certain ways.
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The fact is that surveys which media people openly admit to show that fewer than twelve percent of their customers believe they're doing a good job, while the average profit margin in television is in the neighborhood of eighty percent.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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It is inappropriate to discuss matters of business, pleasure or current events in the temple.
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Did I shop Kmart for clothing? No, I didn't. But I loved that I could be totally involved in the hangtags, the buttons, the commercials and with the designers. Something in my head said 'Yes.' I was adventurous.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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When you're playing someone who drinks a lot, it's not that interesting to play that condition because as soon as you know that, you got all the information you're going to get from it. It's like hitting the same note on the piano over and over again.
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My family for several generations have been members of the Unitarian Church.
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From the moment of using rocket devices, a great new era will begin in astronomy: the epoch of the more intensive study of the firmament.
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The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system finds its statement in another proposition in the same system.
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Faith comes in different tempers: there's the hard, brittle faith that shatters when it meets an obstacle it can't cut through, and the tough, springy faith that bounces off unchipped.
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The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.
