Folly as It Flies
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“Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.”
Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
“She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.”
Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
Source: Ginger-Snaps
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.”
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
Source: FRESH LEAVES
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.”
Source: Ruth Hall and Other Writings
“they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
Source: Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir
Source: FRESH LEAVES
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
“Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
“Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.”
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things
“Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.”
Source: Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio: Second Series
“Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.”
Source: Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir
Source: Shadows and Sunbeams
“I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
Source: FRESH LEAVES
“The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
“Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.”
Source: Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio
“One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
Source: Folly as It Flies
“Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
Source: Ginger-Snaps
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.”
Source: Shadows and Sunbeams
Source: Ginger-Snaps
Source: Folly as It Flies
“Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.”
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“A little oil makes machinery work easy.”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
Source: Folly as It Flies
“Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.”
Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
Source: Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio
“adversity is so rough a teacher!”
Source: Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time
“How strong sometimes is weakness!”
Source: Folly as It Flies
“Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!”
Source: FRESH LEAVES
Source: Ginger-Snaps
“When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.”
Source: Folly as It Flies
Source: Ruth Hall
Source: Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio ; And, Shadows and Sunbeams
Source: Folly as It Flies
Source: Folly as It Flies
“There are no little things. "Little things," so called, are the hinges of the universe.”
Source: Ruth Hall and Other Writings
“The way to a man’s heart is through his stomach.”
Source: Ruth Hall and Other Writings
Source: Caper-sauce: A Volume of Chit-chat about Men, Women, and Things