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Mabel Osgood Wright was an American author born in 1859 and died in 1934. Her works mainly covered the fields of history, biography, and children's literature, known for her delicate writing style and profound portrayal of characters.

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Famous Mabel Osgood Wright Quotes

“Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the recipient needs?”

People Thinking Needs Giving Use Charity Articles

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints by way of expression, and you will seldom see two sides of a leaf of the same hue, and the leaf stem frequently gives a good dash of bronze or purple.”

Knows Way Giving Two Sides Nature Color Expression Green Stem Leafs Purple Two Sides Monotonous Hue Palette Bronze

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“Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all arranged!”

Ifs Should Would Be Sex Race Imagine Coming Out Unconsciousness

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics can neither compass nor share.”

People Form Share Critics Enjoyment Compass Eccentric

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?”

Should Mother Father Love Is Sacred Dues Mother Love

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“Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.”

Plans Garden Standing Letters Climate Weather Gardening Reminders Insert

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“it is really astonishing how few colors are inharmonious when they are profusely massed and have green for a background.”

Color Green Backgrounds Gardening Astonishing

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“Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.”

Years Made Generations Garden Gardening Gardener

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”

Ifs Giving Seems Poverty What Is Life

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being over old, under done, and dry o' gravy.”

Done Cold News Dry Gossip Chests Pie Supper Gravy

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.”

Humans Study Greater Human Nature Garden Hospitals Flotsam

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant among the old ladies and gentlemen that tread foot-paths in the sky.”

Earth Nature Path Feet Sky Mere Developing Gentleman Infant Stimulus Old Lady Ladies And Gentlemen

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from that of the soil under pasture turf, or the breath that the garden gives off in great sighs of relief when it is relaxed and refreshed by a summer shower.”

Giving Different Earth Nature Bears Summer Garden Breaths Various Woods Tales Soil Relief Showers Leafs Sigh Relaxed Fragrance Mold Odor Pastures Turf Sigh Of Relief

Author:Mabel Osgood Wright

“Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month seem only stirred to lamentation, giving us year end and 'melancholy days' remarks, thereby showing that theory is stronger than observation among the rhyming brotherhood, or else that they have chronic indigestion and no gardens to stimulate them.”

Source: The garden of a commuter's wife

“even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.”

Humans Morning Spring Plant Lowest Vitality Early Morning Plant Life Early Spring

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“in the city at best one lives the life of others, the life of the shop, the street, the crowd, while in the country one must live one's own life.”

Country Cities Streets Crowds Live Life Shops Lives Of Others

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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“It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.”

Matter Love Is One Love

Book:The garden of a commuter's wife

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About the Author

Born: 1859
Died: 1934
Known for: Author
Quotes: 17

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