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“I think there is one smashing rule: never face the facts.”

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Ruth Gordon was a celebrated actress known for her versatile performances in both stage and film. Born on October 30, 1896, she spent her career captivating audiences with her unique talent. She passed away on August 28, 1985, leaving behind a legacy of memorable roles. more

“Life is getting through the moment. The philosopher William James says to cultivate the cheerful attitude. Now nobody had more trouble than he did -- except me. I had more trouble in my life than anybody. But your first big trouble can be a bonanza if you live through it. Get through the first trouble, you'll probably make it through the next one.”

Ifs Firsts Moments Bigs Life Is Next Attitude Trouble Philosopher Cheerful The Next One

Author:Ruth Gordon

“At seventy-four I'm getting minor raves on my looks, but I'm caught in the middle. Who knows what seventy-four looks like? Who cares? But if I'd listened to my friends, I could now lie and say I'm eighty-four. For eighty-four, the way I look is spectacular.”

Ifs Knows Way Looks Care Lying Four Middle My Friends Caught Minors Who Cares Seventies Eighty Spectacular Rave Caught In The Middle

Book:Myself Among Others

Source: Myself Among Others

“When you finally learn how to do it, you're too old for the good parts.”

Author:Ruth Gordon

“In the old days, ptomaine poisoning was a cover-all. If you missed a show and you were young, it meant you were having an abortion. If you were old, it meant you were having a face lift.”

Ifs Shows Faces Young Moral Manners Lifts Abortion Old Days Poisoning

Author:Ruth Gordon

“When children ask you questions about gray hairs, and wrinkles in the face, and sighs that have no words, and smiles too bright to be carved upon the radiant face by the hands of hypocrisy--when they ask you about kneeling at the altar, speaking into the vacant air, and uttering words to an unseen and in an invisible Presence--when they interrogate you about your great psalms, and hymns, and anthem-bursts of thankfulness, what is your reply to these? Do not be ashamed of the history. Keep steadily along the line of fact. Say what happened to you, and magnify God in the hearing of the inquirer.”

“Credit is a matter so subtle in its essence, that, as it may be obtained almost without reason, so, without reason, may it be made to melt away.”

May Made Matter Reason Essence Credit Subtle

Book:Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

Source: Dr. Wortle's School: Trollope's Works

“Success is more dangerous than failure, the ripples break over a wider coastline.”

Success Break Dangerous Congratulations Ripple Coastline

Book:Ways of Escape

Source: Ways of Escape

“The best education is to be had at a price, as well as the best broadcloth.”

Wells Education Best Education

Book:Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

Source: Anthony Trollope: The Chronicles of Barsetshire & The Palliser Novels (Unabridged): The Warden + The Barchester Towers + Doctor Thorne + Framley Parsonage + The Small House at Allington + The Last Chronicle of Barset + Can You Forgive Her? + The Prime Minister + Eustace Diamonds...

“If we wish ourselves to be high, we should treat that which is over us as high.”

Ifs Should Wish Treats Reverence

Book:Thackeray

Source: Thackeray

“The mind of the thinker and the student is driven to admit, though it be awe-struck by apparent injustice, that this inequality is the work of God. Make all men equal to-day, and God has so created them that they shall be all unequal to-morrow.”

Men Mind Students Equal Injustice Equality Driven Inequality Awe Thinker Morrow

Book:An Autobiography and Other Writings

Source: An Autobiography and Other Writings

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