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If becoming a grandmother was only a matter of choice, I should advise every one of you straightway to become one. There is no fun for old people like it.
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The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
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We were made to be human beings here, and when people try to be anything else, they generally get into some sort of scrapes.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Hannah Whitall Smith
Born:
February 7, 1832
Died:
May 1, 1911
(aged 79)
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