The Ten Commandments don't tell you what you ought to do: They only put ideas into your head.

Elizabeth Bibesco
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  1. Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting

  2. You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you can ban the bomb in a feather boa just as well as without, and a mild interest in the length of hemlines doesn't necessarily disqualify...

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  4. We often call a certainty a hope, to bring it luck.

  5. Happiness is a light, an atmosphere, an illumination. It sets a personality. I always feel that it is a creation that is difficult for some and easy for others, but essentially an achievement, never an accident.

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