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“Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!”

Phyllis McGinley · Christmas

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Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.

Loneliness

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Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.

Marriage

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

Peace

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Nothing fails like success nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Success

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