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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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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There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.
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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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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
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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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No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
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Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
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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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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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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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How strong sometimes is weakness!
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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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Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.
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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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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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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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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.
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It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.