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The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Campaign behavior for wives: Always be on time. Do as little talking as humanly possible. Lean back in the parade car so everybody can see the president. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it? ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war. ↗

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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