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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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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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Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.
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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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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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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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help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.
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