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It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life, I find. - John F. Kennedy Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing. - Winston Churchill The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end. - Benjamin Disraeli If you would be loved, love and be lovable. - Benjamin Franklin We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect. - Henry David Thoreau

Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on cake, sweet, but not nourishing.

- Nellie McClung | Politeness and Manners Quotes

Never retract, never explain, never apologize - get the thing done and let them howl.

- Nellie McClung | Politicians Quotes

This proves what a purifying effect women would have on politics.

- Nellie McClung | Politics Quotes

By nice women . . . you probably mean selfish women who have no more thought for the underprivileged, overworked women than a pussycat in a sunny window for the starving kitten in the street. Now in that sense I am not a nice woman, for I do care.

- Nellie McClung | Women Quotes

The economic dependence of women is perhaps the greatest injustice that has been done to us, and has worked the greatest injury to the race.

- Nellie McClung | Women Quotes

Women who set a low value on themselves make life hard for all women.

- Nellie McClung | Women Quotes