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Quote by Zelda Fitzgerald
Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbacks from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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Oh, the secret life of man and woman –dreaming how much better we would be than we are if we were somebody else or even ourselves, and feeling that our estate has been unexploited to its fullest. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. – Zelda Fitzgerald

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If one cannot catch a bird of paradise, better take a wet hen. – Nikita Khrushchev

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Compromise used to mean that half a loaf was better than no bread. Among modern statesmen it really seems to mean that half a loaf ;is better than a whole loaf. – G. K. Chesterton

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Better bend than break. – Scottish Proverb

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