- A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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- Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity. It is what makes nations great and marriages happy.
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- God knows that a mother needs fortitude and courage and tolerance and flexibility and patience and firmness and nearly every other brave aspect of the human soul. But because I happen to be a parent of almost fiercely maternal nature, I praise casualness . It seems to me the rarest of virtues. It is useful enough when children are small. It is important to the point of necessity when they are adolescents.
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- Sticks and stones are hard on bones, aimed with angry art, words can sting like anything but silence breaks the heart.
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- To be a housewife is ... a difficult, a wrenching, sometimes an ungrateful job if it is looked on only as a job. Regarded as a profession, it is the noblest as it is the most ancient of the catalogue. Let none persuade us differently or the world is lost indeed.
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