Top 52 Fanny Fern Quotes
#1. The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.
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#2. Love is a farce; matrimony is a humbug; husbands are domestic Napoleons, Neroes, Alexanders,
sighing for other hearts to conquer, after they are sure of yours.
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#3. Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.
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#4. It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.
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#5. I am convinced that there are times in everybody's experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.
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#7. I've as good a right to preserve the healthy body God gave me, as if I were not a woman.
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#8. They who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.
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#9. She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.
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#10. Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.
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#11. Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son ...
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#12. Matrimony and the toothache may be survived, but of all the evils femininity is heir to, defend me from a shopping excursion.
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#13. Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?
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#14. Everything in the country, animate and inanimate, seems to whisper, be serene, be kind, be happy. We grow tolerant there unconsciously.
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#15. I am getting sick of people. I am falling in love with things. They hold their tongues ...
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#16. O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.
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#17. Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?
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#18. Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.
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#19. Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but - justice ...
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#20. Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.
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#21. No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.
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#22. Uncles and aunts, and cousins, are all very well, and fathers and mothers are not to be despised; but a grandmother, at holiday time, is worth them all.
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#23. Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.
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#24. Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.
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#25. Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe.
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#26. Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy.
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#27. Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.
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#28. There are no little things. Little things are the hinges of the universe.
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#29. Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.
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#30. I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.
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#31. To her, the name of father was another name for love.
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#32. I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it.
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#33. What a pity when editors review a woman's book, that they so often fall into the error of reviewing the woman instead.
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#34. When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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#35. The term 'lady' has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.
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#36. One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.
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#37. Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!
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#39. I wish one half the world were not fools, and the other half idiots.
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#40. There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration.
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#41. Hoary-headed old Winter, I have had enough of you!
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#42. To the Pilgrim Mothers, who not only had their full share of the hardships and privations of pioneer life but also had the Pilgrim Fathers to endure.
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#43. Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers ...
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#44. Marriage is the hardest way to get a living.
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#45. Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.
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#46. Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.
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#47. Few husbands (and the longer I observe, the more I am convinced of the truth of what I am about to say, and I make no exception in favor of education or station) have the magnanimity to use justly, generously, the power which the law puts in their hands.
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#48. Life wore a new aspect; the skies were bluer, the earth greener, the flowers more fragrant; her twin soul existed somewhere.
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#49. Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.
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#50. Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.
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#51. A little oil makes machinery work easy ...
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#52. Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.
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