Mary Ellen Chase Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“It is quite possible to leave your home for a walk in the early morning air and return a different person - beguiled, enchanted.”
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“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
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“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child.”
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“Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.”
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“Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.”
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“The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.”
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“Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.”
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“Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.”
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“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”
-- Mary Ellen Chase
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