No good deed goes unpunished.

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They say that women talk too much. If you have worked in congress you know that the filibuster was invented by men.

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Because I am a woman, I must make unusual efforts to succeed. If I fail, no one will say, 'She doesn't have what it takes.' They will say, 'Women don't have what it takes.' -Clare Booth Luce
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Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.

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I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me.

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Politician talk themselves red, white, and blue in the face. -Clare Booth Luce
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Lying increases the creative faculties, expands the ego, and lessens the frictions of social contacts.

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Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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There is nothing like a good dose of another woman to make a man appreciate his wife. -Clare Booth Luce
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