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> [The study of tavern history often brings to light much evidence of sad domestic changes. Many a cherished and beautiful home, rich in annals of family prosperity and private hospitality, ended its days as a tavern.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/the-study-of-tavern-history-often-brings-to-light-much-evidence-of/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

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> [Salem houses present to you a serene and dignified front, gracious yet reserved, not thrusting forward their choicest treasures to the eyes of passing strangers; but behind the walls of the houses, enclosed from public view, lie cherished gardens, full…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/salem-houses-present-to-you-a-serene-and-dignified-front-gracious-yet/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

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## More by Alice Morse Earle

> [The grape Hyacinth is the favorite spring flower of my garden - but no! I though a minute ago the Scilla was! and what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/the-grape-hyacinth-is-the-favorite-spring-flower-of-my-garden-but-no/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [In the early days of the New England colonies, no more embarrassing or hampering condition, no greater temporal ill, could befall any adult Puritan…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/in-the-early-days-of-the-new-england-colonies-no-more-embarrassing-or/)

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> [It is plainly evident that, in a country where land was to be had for the asking, fuel for the cutting, corn for the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/it-is-plainly-evident-that-in-a-country-where-land-was-to-be-had-for/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [By the year 1670, wooden chimneys and log houses of the Plymouth and Bay colonies were replaced by more sightly houses of two stories,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/by-the-year-1670-wooden-chimneys-and-log-houses-of-the-plymouth-and/)

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> [In the seventeenth century, the science of medicine had not wholly cut asunder from astrology and necromancy; and the trusting Christian still believed in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/in-the-seventeenth-century-the-science-of-medicine-had-not-wholly-cut/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [The seventeenth-century baby slept, as his nineteenth-century descendant does, in a cradle. Nothing could be prettier than the old cradles that have survived successive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/the-seventeenth-century-baby-slept-as-his-nineteenth-century/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [One of the earliest institutions in every New England community was a pair of stocks. The first public building was a meeting-house, but often…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/one-of-the-earliest-institutions-in-every-new-england-community-was-a/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [The brank, or scold's bridle, was unknown in America in its English shape: though from colonial records we learn that scolding women were far…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/the-brank-or-scold-s-bridle-was-unknown-in-america-in-its-english/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [It is easy to gain a definite notion of the furnishing of colonial houses from a contemporary and reliable source - the inventories of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/it-is-easy-to-gain-a-definite-notion-of-the-furnishing-of-colonial/)

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> [It is heartrending to read the entries in many an old family Bible - the records of suffering, distress, and blasted hopes.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/it-is-heartrending-to-read-the-entries-in-many-an-old-family-bible/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [The clock is running. Make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/the-clock-is-running-make-the-most-of-today-time-waits-for-no-man/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [Our Puritan forefathers, though bitterly denouncing all forms and ceremonies, were great respecters of persons; and in nothing was the regard for wealth and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/our-puritan-forefathers-though-bitterly-denouncing-all-forms-and/)

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> [We should have scant notion of the gardens of these New England colonists in the seventeenth century were it not for a cheerful traveller…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/we-should-have-scant-notion-of-the-gardens-of-these-new-england/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [There is something inexpressibly sad in the thought of the children who crossed the ocean with the Pilgrims and the fathers of Jamestown, New…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/there-is-something-inexpressibly-sad-in-the-thought-of-the-children/)

[Alice Morse Earle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/alice-morse-earle/)

> [When the first settlers landed on American shores, the difficulties in finding or making shelter must have seemed ironical as well as almost unbearable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/alice-morse-earle/when-the-first-settlers-landed-on-american-shores-the-difficulties-in/)

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