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Quote by Gail Sheehy
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Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough. – Gail Sheehy

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Although there are many trial marriages… there is no such thing as a trial child. – Gail Sheehy

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We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. – Gail Sheehy

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect. – Marcus Aurelius

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He that respects himself is safe from others; he wears a coat of mail that none can pierce. – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Be beautiful if you can, wise if you want to, but be respected – that is essential. – Anna Gould

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Some people have so much respect for their superiors they have none left for themselves. – Peter McArthur

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