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Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick
The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consol

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Mothers born on relief have their babies on relief. Nothingness, truly, seems to be the condition of these New York people. They are nomads going from one rooming house to another, looking for a toilet that functions. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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Welfare
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Elizabeth Hardwick
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Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid. – Elizabeth Hardwick

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teacher
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Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience. – George Will

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I would wish for any one of my colleagues to have the experience of working with Martin Scorsese once in their lifetime. – Daniel Day-Lewis

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Experience

Baseball is a rookie, his experience no bigger than the lump in his throat as he begins fulfillment of his dream. – Ernie Harwell

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My Marine experience helped shape who I am now personally and professionally, and I am grateful for that on an almost daily basis. – Jim Lehrer

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If you always make excuses to not follow through you deserve the weight of anxiety on your chest. – Daniel, @blindedpoet

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Books that have become classics — books that have had their day and now get more praise than perusal — always remind me of retired colonels and majors and captains who, having reached the age limit, find themselves retired on half pay. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich

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True strength lies in submission which permits one to dedicate his life, through devotion, to something beyond himself. – Henry Miller

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People are broad-minded. Theyll accept the fact that a person can be an alcoholic, a dope fiend, a wife beater and even a newspaperman; but if a man doesnt drive, theres something wrong with him. – Art Buchwald

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