After the discovery in 1918 of love letters revealing that Franklin was involved with Lucy Mercer The bottom dropped out of my own particular world, I faced myself, my surroundings, my world, honestly for the first time.
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I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis.Eleanor Roosevelt
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
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It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
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It is not fair to ask of others what you are unwilling to do yourself.
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Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.
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We have all made such a fetish of financial success and forgotten frequently that success of any kind, when it does not include success in one's personal relationships, is bound in the end to leave both the man and the woman with very little real satisfaction.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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