Fanny Fern Quotes

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

Fanny Fern
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.

Fanny Fern
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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The tiny feet that crept, mice-like, in and out from under the sweeping folds of her silken robe.

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Alas! when will 'good people' learn that the devil is never better pleased than when they try to make 'religion' a gloomy thing.

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Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

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Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

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I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues.

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Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

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It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send MSS. for publication.

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I hate new gowns — I hate new shoes — I hate new bonnets — I hate any thing new except new — spapers, and I was born reading them.

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There are no little things. 'Little things,' so called, are the hinges of the universe.

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The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

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Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

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What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.

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In most of the New York shop windows, one reads: 'Here we speak French;' 'Here we speak Spanish;' 'Here we speak German;' 'Here we speak Italian.' I suggest an improvement — 'Here we speak the Truth.'

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Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

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Why don't men... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

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Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

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