Alice Foote Macdougall

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    I can imagine living without food. I cannot imagine living without books.
    Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    To you illness is negligible. You have learned that you can dominate yourself. You know that your body lags, but your soul proceeds upon its triumphant way.
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    Much of the success of life depends upon keeping one’s mind open to opportunity and seizing it when it comes.
    Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    “Must a name mean something?” Alice asked doubtfully.
    “Of course it must,” Humpty Dumpty said with a short laugh: “my name means the shape I am—and a good handsome shape it is, too. With a name like yours, you might be any shape, almost.”
    Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)

    I am always glad to think that my education was, for the most part, informal, and had not the slightest reference to a future business career. It left me free and untrammeled to approach my business problems without the limiting influence of specific training.
    —Alice Foote MacDougall (1867–1945)

    Monte Beragon: When I’m close to you like this, there’s a sound in the air like the beating of wings. Do you know what that is?
    Mildred Pierce: No, what?
    Monte Beragon: My heart, beating like a schoolboy’s.
    Mildred Pierce: Is it? I thought it was mine.
    —Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973)