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Margaret Halsey [1910-1997] American

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Margaret Halsey was an American writer who lived in the United Kingdom for a short time. Her first book With Malice Towards Some grew out of her experiences there. It was a witty and humorous bestseller, selling 600,000 copies.

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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.	Time	101
Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.		102
Bulldogs have been known to fall on their swords when confronted by my superior tenacity.		103
He has the common feeling of his profession. He enjoys a statement twice as much if it appears in fine print, and anything that turns up in a footnote... takes on the character of divine revelation.		104
In some circumstances, the refusal to be defeated is a refusal to be educated.		105
Some persons talk simply because they think sound is more manageable than silence.		106
The role of a do-gooder is not what actors call a fat part.		107
The English never smash in a face. They merely refrain from asking it to dinner.		108
I was well warned about English food, so it did not surprise me, but I do wonder sometimes, how they ever manage to prise it up long enough to get a plate under it.		109

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