Catherine Bailey Quotes

#1. cloak of secrecy: the private asylums and single-lodging establishments, both

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#2. It is, quite possibly, a matter for argument, whether the time may not soon arrive when it would be wiser to urge him towards things he has a turn for and will do well, rather than push him towards things which you pre-conceive to be better and which certainly are better for other people.

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#3. were ninety-four cases in the five rooms; together, they held over a thousand

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#4. People don't get gentler as they get older but rather, harder.

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#5. To be able to say 'sorry' to a woman- a sister, or a mother, is a most helpful thing, whether sorry or not. Still, for the sake of peace and gentleness at home just 'Sorry'which doesn't bind you to anything---but it turns away wrath! And soreness! And is like sunshine and hurts no one.

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#6. Writing to her from America, her best friend remarked, 'I've stopped reading fiction, I just read about you.

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#7. prompted questions to be asked at the time.

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#8. If you keep your head screwed on right in so doing, then your experience thus gained is most valuable in enabling you to gauge human beings and their ways.
(Advice in letter from 8th Duke of Rutland, to his son later the 9th Duke.

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#9. Don't shut yourself up with books entirely; that is an unhealthy process for anyone, and leads to no practical end.

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#10. But they turned out to be prescriptions for medicines, and not for the common cold: opium, lavender oil, belladonna, orange rind, chloral hydrate, strychnine, potassium bromide. Such sedatives and stimulants were common remedies at that time for epilepsy.

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