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Phyllis McGinley [1905-1978] American

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Phyllis McGinley was a Pulitzer Prize winning American author of children's books and poetry. Her poetry was in the style of light verse, specializing in humor, satiric tone and the positive aspects of suburban life.

Alone, Christmas, Marriage, Peace, Poetry, Time

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A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.		101
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!	Christmas, Time	102
A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she can have a baby, she can use her intuition instead of her brain, but she can't fold a paper in a crowded train.		103
Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror, shoulders bare, trying this way and that their hair, or fly importunate down the stair to answer the telephone.	Alone	104
Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.		105
Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.	Peace	106
Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it becomes us to be grateful.	Marriage	107
Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.		108
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.		109
When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect me from The fool as adversary, Whose mind to him a kingdom is Where reason lacks dominion, Who calls conviction prejudice And prejudice opinion.		110
Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by lovers of the same.		111
Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be deserved, like a hug from a child.		112
Getting along with men isn't what's truly important. The vital knowledge is how to get along with a man, one man.		113
In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.	Poetry	114
Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.		115

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