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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Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!
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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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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
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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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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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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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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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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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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice.
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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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How strong sometimes is weakness!
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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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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.
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they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
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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.