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Phyllis McGinley: Middle-Bracket
on Tuesday, April 9, 2019Phyllis McGinley Money Quote saying Everything about them is average from income to home, to attitudes. Phyllis McGinley said:
“I’m a middle-bracket person with a middle-bracket spouse, And we live together gaily in a middle-bracket house. We’ve a fair-to-middlin’ family; we take the middle view; So we’re manna sent from heaven to internal revenue” — Phyllis McGinley
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Phyllis McGinley: Wealth Reputation
on Sunday, March 24, 2019Phyllis McGinley Money Quote saying that being wealthy is not the goal – rather the hope is for reputational gains and honor for the poet. Phyllis McGinley said:
“Mere wealth, I am above it, It is the reputation wide, The playwright’s pomp, the poet’s pride That eagerly I covet” — Phyllis McGinley
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Phyllis McGinley: Economy Thrift
on Friday, March 22, 2019Phyllis McGinley Money Quote saying one can imagine frugality in it’s many forms through behavior toward a single asset. Phyllis McGinley said:
“Meanness inherits a set of silverware and keeps it in the bank. Economy uses it only on important occasions, for fear of loss. Thrift sets the table with it every night for pure pleasure, but counts the butter spreaders before they are put away” — Phyllis McGinley
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