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“Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.”

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“I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.”

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“it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.”

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“Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.”

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“Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.”

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“We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others break down: we think we feel the springs of life stronger in us.”

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“Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and thoroughness.”

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“A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.”

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“Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.”

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“in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.”

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“little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.”

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“The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.”

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“I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end of the day to borrow from.”

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“... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.”

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“What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!”

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“What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.”

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