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Margaret Ayer Barnes was an American playwright born on April 8, 1886, and passed away on October 25, 1967. Known for her profound social insights and exploration of female characters, her works have left a lasting impact on American theater.

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“Character comes before scholarship.”

Character Scholarship

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“Curious, isn't it that "talking with the right people" means something so different from "talking with the right person"?”

People Mean Persons Different Talking Curious Right Person

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“Sentiment, crystallized, grows into sentimentality. It lost all spontaneity, which was the essence of feeling. It was dated--old-fashioned.”

Feelings Lost Grows Essence Sentiments Old Fashioned Spontaneity Sentimentality

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“I've almost come to feel that it doesn't make much difference what you believe in - the thing that's important is a state of belief. It's much better to believe in nonsense than in nothing.”

Feels Believe Important States Belief Differences Nonsense

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“The trouble with education is that we always read everything when we're too young to know what it means. And the trouble with life is that we're always too busy to re-read it later.”

Knows Mean Young Life Is Reading Trouble Busy Too Busy

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“Character is the best security.”

Character Security

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“All banks should be under government control. Deposits guaranteed, dividends reduced, officials turned into state servants taking their orders from Washington.”

Should States Government Order Servant Officials Dividends Deposits

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“There's nothing in all the world as much fun as talk. When you're talking, that is, with the right person.”

World Persons Fun Talking Right Person

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“Resisted temptations become lost opportunities.”

Opportunity Lost Temptation Lost Opportunity

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“The martial spirit is never dead. It sleeps through fortunate generations, but it wakes up very quickly to the toot of a fife. There's that roistering spirit in men which leads them to think a good fight is a lark - until they've been in one. And the impulse to fight for your own incarnation of an ideal.”

Thinking Men Spirit Fighting Sleep Generations Ideals Wake Up Impulse Fortunate Incarnation Good Fight Larks

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“All wars are crusades, or we're made to feel they are. That's just what's so wicked about them. We're made to feel - not think - and people can't think when they feel.”

People Thinking Feels Made War Wicked Crusades

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“It's a great shame that the world was organized with two sexes. It makes for a lot of trouble.”

World Two Sex Trouble Shame Organized

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“Riches make cowards of us.”

Riches Coward

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About the Author

Born: April 8, 1886
Died: October 25, 1967
Known for: Playwright
Quotes: 13

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