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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.

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 can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.
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help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
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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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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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Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.
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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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Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.
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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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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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