"You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into……" — Cleveland Amory
"You can't make the Duchess of Windsor into Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. The facts of life are very stubborn things."
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28 Quotes by Cleveland Amory
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As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience…
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What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.
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...one of the ways in which cats show happiness is by sleeping.
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Cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human mind. They realize...that we have an infuriating inability to understand,…
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Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that…
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I can't take a well-tanned person seriously.
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For an animal person, an animal-less home is no home at all.
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Opera is like a husband with a foreign title: expensive to support, hard to understand, and therefore a supreme social…
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You do not need to belong to the cat for a long time to realize the main thing that cats…
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Giving the cat a name, like marriage, is not an easy thing. Soon I experienced the selection of name for…
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You cannot expect everything even from the friendliest cat. It is still a cat.
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The facts of life are very stubborn things.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
— Aristotle
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
— Francis Bacon
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
— Pierre Bayle
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
— Jacqueline Bisset
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
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