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Edna Ferber Quotes: Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
         

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.


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Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.



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It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.



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There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.



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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?



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