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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.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Age: 79 †
Born: 1879
Born: February 17
Died: 1958
Died: November 9
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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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No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
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If we could learn how to utilize all the intelligence and patent good will children are born with, instead of ignoring much of it - why - there might be enough to go around! There might be enough to solve our alarming human problems, to put an end to poverty, to stop waging wars.
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The richness and endless variety of human relationships ... that's what authors, even the finest and greatest, only succeed in hinting at. It's a hopeless business, like trying to dip up the ocean with a tea-spoon.
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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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gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
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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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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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Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.
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the encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
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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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Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort to conform to that of the member of the circle who complains most loudly and is most difficult to satisfy.
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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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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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You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.
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there's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody. ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.
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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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Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
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