Frances Parkinson Keyes Quotes

#1. Of all the men I have known, I cannot recall one whose mother did her level best for him when he was little who did not turn out well when he grew up.

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#2. A mystic is a spiritual realist, a person for whom the Invisible is a matter of more or less firsthand experience.

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#3. A half century of living should put a good deal into a person's face besides a few wrinkles and some unwelcome folds around the chin.

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#4. A compensation is something which does not quite compensate ...

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#5. Folks with their wits about them knew that advertisements were just a pack of lies - you had only to look at the claims of patent medicines!

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#6. One does not permit one's friends to be slandered in time of trouble.

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#7. The only door into her bedroom led through the church.

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#8. I have always been allergic to telephones. As far as I am concerned, they are very seldom time-savers and very often the destroyers of schedules.

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#9. Scales are the grammar of music.

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#10. You know how some people are - they always feel they have to do things for other people's good, no matter what happens to the other people in the process!

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#11. The snow, which had fallen quietly at first, was now pelting against the windowpanes, driven by a wicked wind; the storm was rapidly assuming proportions of a blizzard.

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#12. Fortunately, any kind of setback has represented a challenge to do better, rather than an acceptance of inferiority on my part.

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#13. Taking the way that opens, even if it seems hardly more than a footpath, not infrequently leads to the highways of heart's desire, if not to fame and fortune.

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