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It is not what France gave you but what it did not take from you that was important.

Gertrude Stein

Anyone who marries three girls from St Louis hasn’t learned much.
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Learning Marriage Oneself
Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.
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Change Money Yourself
It is inevitable when one has a great need of something one finds it. What you need you attract like a lover.
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Attraction Evitable Finding Greatness Lover Need Yourself
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
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Believe Change Science Thinking
Every day is a renewal, every morning the daily miracle. This joy you feel is life.
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Day Feeling Joy Life Miracle Morning Yourself
I have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.
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Declare Myself Patience Patient
A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.
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Important Make Up Mindset Oneself Yourself
The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.
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Beginning Believe Live Machine Natural Reality Reason Science Thinking
Nothing could bother me more than the way a thing goes dead once it has been said.
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Death Myself Way
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
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Depression Doubt Father
Mostly every one is needing some one to be one listening to that one being one being one boasting.
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Boast Listening Need Oneself
This is the lesson that history teaches: repetition.
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History Lesson Repeat Teaching
From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.
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Age Nature Progress Transition
Honesty is a selfish virtue. Yes I am honest enough.
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Enough Honesty Myself Selfish Virtue
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
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Business Important Yourself
There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.
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Attack Kind Man Resistance Way Winning Woman

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