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Dorothy Canfield Fisher Inspirational Quotes (32)

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gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.
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On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.
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What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?
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Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
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it was always insolent for a common man to take a chair in the presence of a lady - the word LADY, we may be sure, capitalized in her mind, and denoting not sex but rank.
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There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.
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help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
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What is life, but one long risk?
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What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
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Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.
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Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that everybody tries to do just this. What else is gossip?
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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
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What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?
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The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.
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There's no healthy life possible without some sensual feeling between the husband and wife, but there's nothing in the world more awful than married life when it's the only common ground.
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Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction that without freedom human life is not worth living.
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History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.
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Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
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You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!
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perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.
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Oh, yes, of course I like music, too. Very much. It's so pleasant of an evening, especially when made by your friends at home. I often say I like it better than cards. Though I must say I do like a good game of bridge.
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Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.
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don't let anything make you believe that there are not as many decent men in the world as women, and they're just as decent. Life isn't worth living unless you know that - and it's true.
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