Convenience Quote by Mignon McLaughlin

“The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.”

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As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

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Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway.

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We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

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The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

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We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

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The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

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One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

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So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God.

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The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.

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There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults.

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In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

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Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

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The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statisticians for the convenience of statisticians.

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What you call disorder is nothing else than one of the laws of the order you comprehend not and which you have erroneously named…

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Thirty or forty proprietors, with incomes answering to between one thousand and five thousand a year, would create a much more effectual demand for…

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If you spot a market where the only choices are at either one end or the other - high fidelity or high convenience - there's probably a big opportunity at the other end. That was the opening for Federal Express, for instance. When it started, there was only one mail service in America - the US Postal Service, which was…

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Unfortunately, nature seems unaware of our intellectual need for convenience and unity, and very often takes delight in complication and diversity.

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What more degrades woman today than that she so often seeks marriage as a support? Why is the holy sacrament of love, the sanctity of the family state, so often prostituted and destroyed, but because marriage is entered upon as a necessity or a convenience? And what can so place marriage on its only true basis of mutual love, mutual…

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