Top 5 Harriet Hosmer Quotes

#1. A pun, like champagne, loses its sparkle when too long drawn out. Its flash is its savor.

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#2. I honor every woman who has strength enough to step out of the beaten path when she feels that her walk lies in another.

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#3. Words are cold and formal things.

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#4. Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.

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#5. [On leaving the U.S. for Italy:] I ought to be accomplishing thrice as much as now, and feel that I am soul-bound and thought-bound in this land of dollars and cents.

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