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Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.
Sarah Josepha Hale
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Sarah Josepha Hale
Age: 90 †
Born: 1788
Born: October 24
Died: 1879
Died: April 30
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Though youth be past, and beauty fled, The constant heart its pledge redeems, Like box, that guards the flowerless bed And brighter from the contrast seems.
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Among those kinds of food which the good housekeeper should scrupulously banish from her table, is that of hot leavened bread....I believe it more often lays the foundation of diseases of the stomach, than any other kind of nourishment, used among us.
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The burning soul, the burden'd mind, In books alone companions find.
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This is a speculating and selfish age and to think 'money will answer all things,' is too much the characteristic of Americans.
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... rights are liable to be perverted to wrongs when we are incapable of rightly exercising them.
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