Mignon McLaughlin

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There are a handful of people whom money won't spoil, and we all count ourselves among them.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

Love is the silent saying and saying of a single name.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

The proud man can learn humility, but he will be proud of it.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

We are all born brave, trusting and greedy, and most of us remain greedy.

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

No matter how brilliantly an idea is stated, we will not really be moved unless we have already half thought of it ourselves.