Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in… — Quoted

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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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Phyllis McGinley

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

Marriage

Phyllis McGinley

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

Success

Phyllis McGinley

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

Phyllis McGinley

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

Poetry