Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.


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Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.
HELEN ROWLAND
When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they don't understand one another, but...
HELEN ROWLAND
Telling lies is a fault in a boy, an art in a lover, an accomplishment in a bachelor, and second-nat...
HELEN ROWLAND
Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whol...
HELEN KELLER
I know that faith made my life possible and that of many others like me... Reason hardly warranted A...
HELEN KELLER
Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with th...
HELEN HAYES
Humility is like underwear; essential, but indecent if it shows.
HELEN NIELSEN
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
HELEN MACINNESS
When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of ano...
HELEN KELLER
To make a man perfectly happy tell him he works too hard, that he spends too much money, that he is ...
HELEN ROWLAND
A man's desire for a son is usually nothing but the wish to duplicate himself in order that such a r...
HELEN ROWLAND
What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.
HELEN KELLER
My darkness has been filled with the light of intelligence, and behold, the outer day-lit world was ...
HELEN KELLER
Smell is a potent wizard that transports us across thousands of miles and all the years we have live...
HELEN KELLER
As selfishness and complaint pervert and cloud the mind, so love with its joy clears and sharpens th...
HELEN KELLER
Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow.
HELEN KELLER
If you rest, you rust.
HELEN HAYES
Toleration is the greatest gift of the mind; it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes ...
HELEN KELLER
A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of...
HELEN ROWLAND
Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts and his higher nature -- ...
HELEN ROWLAND
One man's folly is often another man's wife.
HELEN ROWLAND
Museums and art stores are also sources of pleasure and inspiration. Doubtless it will seem strange ...
HELEN KELLER
I have often been asked, Do not people bore you? I do not understand quite what that means. I suppos...
HELEN KELLER
Of all the senses, sight must be the most delightful.
HELEN KELLER
We may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the...
HELEN KELLER
I used to store my anger and it affected my play. Now I get it out. I'm never rude to my playing par...
HELEN ALFREDSSON
Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a ...
HELEN ROWLAND
In olden times, sacrifices were made at the altar, a practice which is still very much practiced.
HELEN ROWLAND
There is no king who has not had a slave among his ancestors, and no slave who has not had a king am...
HELEN KELLER
God himself is not secure, having given man dominion over his work.
HELEN KELLER
When a man makes a woman his wife, it's the highest compliment he can pay her, and it's usually the ...
HELEN ROWLAND
No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.
HELEN ROWLAND
If a woman is sufficiently ambitious, determined and gifted - there is practically nothing she can't...
HELEN LAWRENSON
Humility is like underwear, essential, but indecent if it shows
HELEN NIELSEN
The best educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
HELEN KELLER
I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and becaus...
HELEN KELLER
Joy is the holy fire that keeps our purpose warm and our intelligence aglow
HELEN KELLER
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free s...
HELEN KELLER
I thank God for my handicaps, for through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.
HELEN KELLER
If it is true that the violin is the most perfect of musical instruments, then Greek is the violin o...
HELEN KELLER
The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the he...
HELEN KELLER
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often ...
HELEN KELLER