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“power, after it has ceased from troubling, is the dominant passion in human nature.”

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Gertrude Atherton was an American author known for her novels and short stories, often focusing on social and moral issues, exploring themes such as women, class, and power. more

“There is a strong conservative instinct in the average man or woman, born of the hereditary fear of life, that prompts them to cling to old standards, or, if too intelligent to look inhospitably upon progress, to move very slowly. Both types are the brakes and wheelhorses necessary to a stable civilization, but history, even current history in the newspapers, would be dull reading if there were no adventurous spirits willing to do battle for new ideas.”

“the only revenge worth having is success.”

Revenge

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“Yankees don't understand that the Southern way of talking is a language of nuance. What we can do in the South is we can take a word and change it just a little bit and make it mean something altogether different.”

Way Mean Littles Different Language Bits Can Do Talking Little Bit South Southern Yankees Nuance Way Of Talking

Author:Lewis Grizzard

“Has it ever occurred to you, that the rich are at the mercy of the poor, not the poor at that of the rich? Who permits us to be rich if not the poor?”

Ifs Poor Rich Mercy Permit Rich And Poor

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“The final result of too much routine is death in life.”

Results Too Much Finals Routine

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.”

Mind Humans Self Capacity Infinite Deception Human Mind Self Deception

Author:Gertrude Atherton

“A little superstition is a good thing to keep in one's bag of precautions.”

Littles Good Things Bags Superstitions Precaution

Book:Black Oxen

Source: Black Oxen

“if there's a spirit world why don't the ghosts of dead artists get together and inhibit bad playwrights from tormenting first-nighters?”

Ifs World Firsts Together Spirit Artist Theater Ghost Playwright Get Together Spirit World

Book:Black Oxen

Source: Black Oxen

“when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings.”

Prayer Intelligent Forests Solitary Communion Occasional True Religion Communion With God

Author:Gertrude Atherton

Quote by Gertrude Atherton

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