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Zoe Akins (October 30, 1886 – October 29, 1958) was an American playwright, poet, and author.

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Even the great can have only their own sort of greatness.

Greatness, Sort

It is much more exquisite to be blown from the tree as a flower than to be shaken down as a shriveled and bitter fruit.

Bitter, Exquisite, Flower, Fruit, Tree

Of bird and prophet and his light shall lead On through the darkness to eventual light, To undiscovered wealth, to newer need. . .

Bird, Lead, Leadership, Light, Undiscovered

To accuse is so easy that it is infamous to do so where proof is impossible!

Accuse, Blame, Impossible, Injustice, Proof

It's all right to tell a wife the brutal truth, but you've got to go sort of easy with your lady-love.

Brutal, Easy, Sort, Tell, Truth, Wife

Work alone qualifies us for life.

Alone, Life, Qualifies, Work

Forgetting is the cost of living cheerfully.

Cheerfully, Cost, Cost Of Living, Forgiveness, Living

No one can ever help loving anyone.

Help, Helping, Loving

The success-haters. That's what I call them -- the people who have never got what they want and turned sour on everybody who has. The world's full of them. As soon as you've made good they begin to watch for you to fail.

Call, People, Watch, Watches, World

Nothing seems so tragic to one who is old as the death of one who is young, and this alone proves that life is a good thing.

Alone, Good, Good Things, Life Is, Young

Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Art, Eye, Marriage, Shutting, Use