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A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.
Mignon McLaughlin in
Marriage

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It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin in
Change

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The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.
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Likely as not, the child you can do the least with will do the most to make you proud.
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A sense of humor is a major defense against minor troubles.
Mignon McLaughlin in
Humor

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We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.
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Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
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If I knew what I was so anxious about, I wouldn't be so anxious.
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Society honors its living conformists and its dead troublemakers.
Mignon McLaughlin in
Society

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The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.
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No one has ever loved anyone the way everyone wants to be loved.
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I'm glad I don't have to explain to a man from Mars why each day I set fire to dozens of little pieces of paper, and then put them in my mouth.
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We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
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For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
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Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.
Mignon McLaughlin

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