Ask Ann Landers/ruth Crowley - The Original Ann Landers 1943-1955

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    “... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service.”
    —George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)

    “Women who are devoted to causes, such as overpopulation and the underprivileged [sic], are much less interested in fashion than, let’s say, those who lunch at La Grenouille and Le Cirque.”
    —Ann Landers (b. 1918)

    “Roughly speaking, any man with energy and enthusiasm ought to be able to bring at least a dozen others round to his opinion in the course of a year no matter how absurd that opinion might be. We see every day in politics, in business, in social life, large masses of people brought to embrace the most revolutionary ideas, sometimes within a few days. It is all a question of getting hold of them in the right way and working on their weak points.”
    —Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)

    “As our domestic fowls are said to have their original in the wild pheasant of India, so our domestic thoughts have their prototypes in the thoughts of her philosophers.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)