43 Quotes by Fanny Fern

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    Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

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    No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

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    I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

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    Too much indulgence has ruined thousands of children; too much love not one.

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    I am convinced that there are times in everybody’s experience when there is so much to be done, that the only way to do it is to sit down and do nothing.

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    Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma.

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    The term ‘lady’ has been so misused, that I like better the old-fashioned term, woman.

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    Our domestic Napoleons, too many of them, give flattery, bonnets and bracelets to women, and everything else but – justice...

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