Lydia Maria Francis Child Quotes

#1. The good old home habits of our ancestors are breaking up - it will be well if our virtue and our freedom do not follow them!

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#2. Do not make children cross-eyed, by having hair hang about their foreheads, where they see it continually.

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#3. Economy, like grammar, is a very hard and tiresome study, after we are twenty years old.

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#4. A reformer is one who sets forth cheerfully toward sure defeat.

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#5. We never shall be prosperous till we make pride and vanity yield to the dictates of honesty and prudence!

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#6. Blessed indeed is the man who hears many gentle voices call him father.

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#7. Beer is a good family drink.

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#8. We first crush people to the earth, and then claim the right of trampling on them forever, because they are prostrate.

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#9. Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture

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#10. If young men and young women are brought up to consider frugality contemptible, and industry degrading, it is vain to expect they will at once become prudent and useful, when the cares of life press heavily upon them.

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#11. Flour boiled thoroughly in milk, so as to make quite a thick porridge, is good in cases of dysentery.

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#12. A mind full of piety and knowledge is always rich; it is a bank that never fails; it yields a perpetual dividend of happiness. In

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#13. Those who make candles will find it a great improvement to steep the wicks in lime-water and saltpetre, and dry them. The flame is clearer, and the tallow will not 'run.

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#14. One great cause of the vanity, extravagance and idleness that are so fast growing upon our young ladies, is the absence of domestic education.

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#15. Over the river and through the wood
To grandfather's house we go

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#16. Plantain leaves laid upon a wound are cooling and healing. Half

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#17. Varnishing Gilded Frames, 117

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#18. Steam-baths are excellent for severe colds, and for some disorders in the bowels.

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#19. The fact is, our girls have no home education.

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#20. An effort made for the happiness of other lifts us above.

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