Mignon McLaughlin Quote Explained: With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

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It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.

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Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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There are three iron links in the neurotic’s chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

- Mignon McLaughlin

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With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Be glad that you’re greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren’t.

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

There are three iron links in the neurotic’s chain: unloving, unlovable, unloved.

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education. Explain

Men, in general, are not this or that, they are what they are made to be. Explain

Rejoicing not in the many but in the probity of the few, we toil for truth alone.

Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next.

Whatever begins to be tranquil is gobbled up by something not tranquil.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

It is easier to show the disorder that must accompany reform than the order that should follow it.

No human mind can comprehend all the knowledge which guides the actions of society.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

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