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“It is among the commonplaces of education that we often first cut off the living root and then try to replace its natural functions by artificial means. Thus we suppress the child's curiosity and then when he lacks a natural interest in learning he is offered special coaching for his scholastic difficulties.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Education Quotes
#Children Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“It's been my experience, Charlotte, that the crisis never comes as or when you expect.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Unexpected Quotes
#Crisis Quotes
#Charlotte Quotes
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“Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Silence Quotes
#Friendly Quotes
#Passionate Quotes
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“Rare indeed is the nature that does not become a little more intense when its own affairs come under discussion.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Doe Quotes
#Littles Quotes
#Affair Quotes
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“Hate is perhaps the most dynamic of all emotions - fear may immobilize, love may stay the hand, but hate urges to action ...”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Hate Quotes
#Hands Quotes
#May Quotes
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“No one really believes in equality who's on top.”
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Alice Duer Miller
Source : Alice Duer Miller (2016). “Manslaughter”, p.24, Library of Alexandria
#Believe Quotes
#Equality Quotes
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“It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Grateful Quotes
#Chivalry Quotes
#Form Quotes
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“No one has ever explained why it is that parents and guardians consider dull people such safe matrimonial investments for their young charges. Even granting the unsound assumption that dull people are more apt to be content with their own matrimonial fetters, they are certainly more apt to be the cause of discontent in others.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#People Quotes
#Parent Quotes
#Dull Quotes
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“the strongest will is the will that knows how to bend.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Adaptability Quotes
#Strongest Quotes
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“In a world where England is finished and dead: I do not wish to live.”
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Alice Duer Miller
Source : 'The White Cliffs' (1940) p. 70
#Wish Quotes
#England Quotes
#World Quotes
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“Men are too emotional to vote. Their conduct at baseball games and political conventions shows this, while their innate tendency to appeal to force renders them particularly unfit for the task of government....Man's place is in the armory.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Baseball Quotes
#Women Quotes
#Emotional Quotes
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“A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Mother Quotes
#Wall Quotes
#Children Quotes
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“Conversation is a partnership, not a relation of master and slave, as most people try to make it.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#People Quotes
#Trying Quotes
#Partnership Quotes
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“People love to talk but hate to listen. Listening is not merely not talking, though even that is beyond most of our powers; it means taking a vigorous, human interest in what is being told us. You can listen like a blank wall or like a splendid auditorium where every sound comes back fuller and richer.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Wall Quotes
#Hate Quotes
#Mean Quotes
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“Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.”
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Alice Duer Miller
Source : Alice Duer Miller, “Forsaking All Others Part 4”
#Love Quotes
#Fists Quotes
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“When a woman like that whom I've seen so much, All of a sudden drops out of touch; Is always busy and never can, Spare you a moment, it means a man.”
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Alice Duer Miller
Source : Alice Duer Miller, “Forsaking All Others Part 4”
#Mean Quotes
#Funny Friend Quotes
#Men Quotes
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“Good manners are the techniques of expressing consideration for the feelings of others.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Army Quotes
#Feelings Quotes
#Good Man Quotes
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“People love to talk but hate to listen.”
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Alice Duer Miller
#Hate Quotes
#People Quotes
