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Quote by Alice James
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It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon. – Alice James

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The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape. – Alice James

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Failure
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How sick one gets of being good, how much I should respect myself if I could burst out and make everyone wretched for twenty-four hours embody selfishness. – Alice James

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respect
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One has a greater sense of degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. – Alice James

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Medical
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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity
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Obscenity is a moral concept in the verbal arsenal of the establishment, which abuses the term by applying it, not to expressions of its own morality but to those of another. – Herbert Marcuse

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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the obscurity of a learned language. – Edward Gibbon

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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

Its only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness. – Lawrence Durrell

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Profanity, Swearing, Vulgarity

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The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That’s why it is called the present. – Alice Morse Earle

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God gives talent. Work transforms talent into genius. – Anna Pavlova

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