The Awakening of Helena Richie
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“You can't have genius without patience.”
Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie
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“nothing is as conventional as adolescence.”
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Source: Around Old Chester
“When two duties jostle each other, one of 'em isn't a duty.”
Source: Dr. Lavendar's People
Source: John Ward, Preacher
Source: Around Old Chester
Source: Dr. Lavendar's People
“Grief is the price Love pays for being in the same world with Death.”
“Habit does much to reconcile us to unpleasantness.”
Source: The Iron Woman
“the attempt to break a habit of years is necessarily experimental.”
Source: Sidney
“The fact is, the secret of happiness is the sense of proportion.”
Source: Dr. Lavendar's People
“men love their wives not because of their virtues, but in spite of them.”
“Home is the best place to be sick in.”
Source: Dr. Lavendar's People
“a manufactured interest has no staying quality - especially if it involves any hard work.”
Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie
“a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!”
“Lawyers make their cake by cooking up other people's troubles.”
Source: Around Old Chester
“A letter is a risky thing; the writer gambles on the reader's frame of mind.”
Source: The Iron Woman
Source: The Iron Woman
“When one promise jostles another, one of 'em isn't a promise.”
Source: The Awakening of Helena Richie
“it's better to be crazy on one point and happy, than sane on all points and unhappy.”
Source: Around Old Chester
“In connection with death, or birth, or love, modesty is only a rather puerile self-consciousness.”
Source: The Iron Woman
“conceit is the devil's horse, and reformers generally ride it when they are in a hurry.”
“silence is very moving to youth, for who knows what it hides?”