Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.

Quote by Edna Ferber

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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles,...

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles,...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life...

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong...

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong...

When the minds have learn't to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and...

When the minds have learn't to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and...

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you...

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you...

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

A closed mind is a dying mind

A closed mind is a dying mind

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles,...

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles,...

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it...

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it...

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world,...

To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world,...

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is...

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is...

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life...

Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life...

A closed mind is a dying mind.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die...

It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die...

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential...

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential...