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“Many people, if they were to treat other people as they treat their spouses, would soon have not a friend in the world. Why it is assumed that marriage is more impervious to the effects of discourtesy than friendship, I do not know.”

Quote by Jo Coudert

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Jo Coudert

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“The cruelest affront is treating the person as exactly the person he is. We all long to be understood, but not for what we are. We long to be understood for what we might have been had all been for the best in the best of all possible worlds and, at the same time, to be forgiven for what we are.”

World Persons Long Has Beens Might Understood Forgiven Might Have Been Affront

Author:Jo Coudert

“People who are good to each other make each other good.”

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Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“It is characteristic to believe that those in need are given to, that the squeaky hinge is the one that gets the oil, but in the realm of emotions this is not so. It is the person who does not solicit liking and love, admiration and respect, sympathy and empathy to whom they are freely given.”

Needs Believe Persons Doe Given Emotion Empathy Respect And Love Oil Realms Characteristics Admiration Hinges Those In Need Admiration And Respect

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“We can win the struggle to avoid responsibility for our personal lives, but if we do, what we lose is our lives.”

Ifs Winning Loses Responsibility Struggle Our Lives Personal Life

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

“If you defy the system long enough you'll be rewarded. At first life takes revenge and reduces you to a sniveling mess. But keep sniveling, have the madness, the audacity, to do what interests you, forget about your pension, and eventually life will say all right, we'll let you do it.”

Ifs Firsts Long Enough Interest Forget Risk Madness Revenge Mess Pension Audacity

Book:Advice from a Failure

Source: Advice from a Failure

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