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One Quotes by Nancy Mitford
- If one can't be happy, one must be amused....
- One's emotions are intensified in Paris—one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place. But it is always a…
- Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
- Oh dear... it really is rather disillusioning. When one's friends marry for money they are wretched, when they marry for love it is worse. What…
- I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were…
- But I think she would have been happy with Fabrice,' I said. 'He was the great love of her life, you know.' Oh, dulling,' said…
- Life is sometimes sad and often dull, but there are currants in the cake, and here is one of them.
- Surely a King who loves pleasure is less dangerous than one who loves glory?
- I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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- In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism. — Hannah Arendt
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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