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Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Margaret Drabble
Novelist, biographer and critic

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd, is an English novelist, biographer and critic. Her first novel appeared in 1963. She won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1966 for The Millstone, and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize in 1967 for Jerusalem the Golden. She edited two editions of The Oxford Companion to English Literature and has written non-fiction on Arnold Bennett, Angus Wilson, William Wordsworth and Thomas Hardy.
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Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

Margaret Cho
American actress and comedian

Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.
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Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Margaret Cho
American actress and comedian

Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.
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Sometimes the only way to deal with horrific things in life is through a dark sense of humor.

Margaret Cho
American actress and comedian

Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.
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It's good to be able to laugh at yourself and the problems you face in life. Sense of humor can save you.

Margaret Cho
American actress and comedian

Margaret Moran Cho is an American stand-up comedian, actress, LGBT social activist, and musician. She is best known for her stand-up routines, through which she critiques social and political problems, especially regarding race and sexuality. She rose to prominence after starring in the ABC sitcom All-American Girl (1994–95), and became an established stand-up comic in the subsequent years.
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... the great thing to learn about life is, first, not to do what you don't want to do, and, second, to do what you do want to do.

Margaret C. Anderson
American editor, author

Margaret Caroline Anderson was the American founder, editor and publisher of the art and literary magazine The Little Review, which published a collection of modern American, English and Irish writers between 1914 and 1929. The periodical is most noted for introducing many prominent American and British writers of the 20th century, such as Ezra Pound and T. S. Eliot, in the United States and publishing the first thirteen chapters of James Joyce's then-unpublished novel Ulysses.
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Old age: the crown of life, our play's last act.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.
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The life of the dead is placed in the memory of the living.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.
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What sweetness is left in life, if you take away friendship? Robbing life of friendship is like robbing the world of the sun. A true friend is more to be esteemed than kinsfolk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.
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While there's life, there's hope.

Marcus Tullius Cicero
Roman statesman, lawyer, orator, and philosopher (106–43 BC)

Marcus Tullius Cicero was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the establishment of the Roman Empire. His extensive writings include treatises on rhetoric, philosophy and politics, and he is considered one of Rome's greatest orators and prose stylists. He came from a wealthy municipal family of the Roman equestrian order, and served as consul in 63 BC.
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