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The more committees you belong to, the less of ordinary life you will understand. When your daily round becomes nothing more than a daily round of committees you might as well be dead.

— Stella Benson Living Alone (1919)

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Reason cannot remain a bare intellectual faculty; it must become a faculty of judgment dealing with the question of values.

The Venture of Rational Faith (1908)

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people — the autobiographists and the biographists.

Pipers and a Dancer (1924)

She specialised in feminism, and in her eyes to be a woman was in itself a good argument.

I Pose (1915)

The gardener was one of those who are never surprised without being thunderstruck.

I Pose (1915)

Los Angeles is a sophisticated city; it has no eccentricities and no heart.

The Little World (1925)

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