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“A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.” quote by Margaret Deland — Download Open image

“A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.”

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the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.

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Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

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Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.

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I have no faith in a human critter who hasn't one or two bad habits.

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To talk over a quarrel, with its inevitable accompaniment of self-justification, is too much like handling cobwebs to be very successful.

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