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help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
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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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 encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.
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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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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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What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.
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A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.
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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
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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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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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No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.
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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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You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.
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Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
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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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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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gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.
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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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What is life, but one long risk?
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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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Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.
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