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A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world.
Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.
Don't ever dare to take your college as a matter of course - because, like democracy and freedom, many people you'll never know have broken their hearts to get it for yo... (more Alice Duer Miller quotes)
| All our lives: Alice Duer Miller by Henry Wise Miller | |
| HARPER'S MAGAZINE VOLUME 149, JUNE THRU NOVEMBER 1924; CARL SANDBURG, ELMER DAVIS, (GEORGE) BERNARD SHAW, ALICE DUER MILLER, GEORGE WHARTON EDWARDS, AMY LOWELL, MORRIE RYSKIND, COUNTEE P. CULLEN by Harper's Magazine/Bound Issues | |
| Summer holiday: A selection of the novels and stories of Alice Duer Miller by Alice Duer Miller |
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