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The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated

Book by Julia McNair Wright · 15 quotes · Order, Home, Ends

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The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated Quotes

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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