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Alice Duer Miller Quotes: If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.
         

If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends-you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it that's the time to hold your tongue.


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No one really believes in equality who's on top.



Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.

Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.



Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.



And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.

And now too late, we see these things are one: The art is sacrifice and self-control And who loves beauty must be stern of soul.





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