Top 10 Mary Ellen Chase Quotes
#1. Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.
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#2. Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.
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#3. Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.
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#5. To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.
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#7. Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.
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#8. The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.
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#9. There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
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#10. Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.
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