Fanny Fern Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.”
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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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“Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.”
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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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“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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“I want a human sermon. I don't care what Melchisedek, or Zerubbabel, or Kerenhappuk did, ages ago; I want to know what I am to do, and I want somebody besides a theological bookworm to tell me; somebody who is sometimes tempted and tried, and is not too dignified to own it; somebody like me, who is always sinning and repenting; somebody who is glad and sorry, and cries and laughs, and eats and drinks, and wants to fight when they are trodden on, and don't!”
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“Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.”
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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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“Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?”
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“One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.”
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“Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.”
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“Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.”
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“There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.”
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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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“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.”
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“Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!”
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“Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.”
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“Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.”
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“Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.”
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“light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers ...”
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“The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.”
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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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“Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.”
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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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“Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.”
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“Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.”
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