Bertha Damon Short Quotes

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Hospital rooms seem to have vastly more ceiling than any rooms people live in.

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Humor was for her a kind of social salt; and salt not only adds savor, it preserves.

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Getting what you go after is success; but liking it while you are getting it is happiness.

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Autumn is the best season in which to sniff, and to sniff for pleasure, for this is the season of universal pungency.

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A quantity of snow in itself is not so wonderful; it is the combinations which snow makes with forms in the winter scene.

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To hide your own crying was the Griswold way of feeling grief. To ignore another's crying, the Griswold way of curing it.

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Since in modern times cruelty is bad form, it must cover itself; this it often does under the admired cloak of discipline.

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Grandma... had a great deal to do with the education of her granddaughters. In general she not so much trained as just shed herself upon us.

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It is tragic that some gifts have to be made so costly, so damaging to the giver that there remains no small part of the giver to go with the gift.

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I believed, like many others, that country life is simple. Now I know that the only thing simple about it is the person who thinks it is going to be.

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Little seedlings never flourish in the soil they have been given, be it ever so excellent, if they are continually pulled up to see if the roots are grateful yet.

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The self-assured porcupine, endearingly grotesque, waddles up the road in broad daylight. He looks as if he had slept in his rumpled spiky clothes, and he probably has.

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I have come to the conclusion that almost no one on earth is lazy. The truth is that the man you call lazy just doesn't want to do your kind of work; he wants to do his kind.

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Beauty that dies the soonest has the longest life. Because it cannot keep itself for a day, we keep it forever. Because it can have existence only in memory, we give it immortality there.

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