Sara Willis Quotes
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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.
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Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
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There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.
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I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
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Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!
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I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
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Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
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How strong sometimes is weakness!
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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
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Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.
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No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
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Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
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To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
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Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.
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Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
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O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
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The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.