Fanny Fern Quotes

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Preface. Excuse me. None this time. There have already been too many big porticos before little buildings.

Fanny Fern
The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

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Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

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Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

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Ah! the difference, whether the hearse stands before one's own door, or one's neighbor's.

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Now I am in for it, with one of my unappeasable headaches. Don't talk to me of doctors; it is incurable as a love-fit.

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Hurry, drive and bustle.... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

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I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.

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Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

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One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

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Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.

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Altogether, he's about as genial as the north side of a meeting-house.

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The way to a man's heart is through his stomach.

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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

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You labor under the hallucination that I felt merry when I wrote all that nonsense! Not a bit of it; it's a way I have, when I can't find a razor handy to cut my throat!

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I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

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O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone.

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Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.

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There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.

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There is nothing on earth so savage — even a bear robbed of her cubs — as a hungry husband.

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I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

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You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

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Can anybody tell me why reporters, in making mention of lady speakers, always consider it to be necessary to report, fully and firstly, the dresses worn by them? When John Jones or Senator Rouser frees his mind in public, we are left in painful ignorance of the color and fit of his pants, coat, necktie and vest - and worse still, the shape of his boots. This seems to me a great omission.

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Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but — justice.

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Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.

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They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

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Uncles, and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.

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Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

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Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

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Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker — covetousness.

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