Jean Harris quotes
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“You learn about gratitude by giving. You learn about humility by receiving, and in the pecking order of human qualities, I'd probably put humility somewhere before gratitude.”
-- Jean HarrisSource : Jean Harris (1993). “Marking Time”, Zebra Books
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“I had led a private life and wanted to die a private death.”
-- Jean HarrisSource : "Mrs. Harris Tells Court She Wanted Her Suicide To Be 'a Private Death'" by James Feron, www.nytimes.com. January 31, 1981.
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“The prison guards are capable of committing daily atrocities and obscenities, smiling the smile of the angels all the while.”
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“It would be ugly to watch people poking sticks at a caged rat. It is uglier still to watch rats poking sticks at a caged person.”
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“Loving an old bachelor is always a no-win situation, and you come to terms with that early on, or you go away.”
-- Jean Harris
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Source : "Obama's debt expert yells at kids" by Mj Lee, www.politico.com. March 07, 2011.
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Source : Albert Pike (1899). “Ex Corde Locutiones...: Words from the Heart Spoken of His Dead Brethren...”
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“I think backwards. "This was beautiful." Instead of forward.”
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“The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.”
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