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> [The Girl of the Period, sauntering before one down Broadway, is one panorama of awful surprises from top to toe. Her clothes characterize her. She never characterizes her clothes. She is upholstered, not ornamented. She is bundled, not draped. She…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-girl-of-the-period-sauntering-before-one-down-broadway-is-one/)

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## More by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

> [The literary artist will ... portray what he knows, and little else. Imagination is built upon knowledge, and his dreams will rest upon his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-literary-artist-will-portray-what-he-knows-and-little-else/)

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> [Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/next-to-the-love-between-man-and-his-creator-the-love-of-one-man-and/)

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> [What an immense power over life is the power of possessing distinct aims.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/what-an-immense-power-over-life-is-the-power-of-possessing-distinct/)

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> [Surely it is one of the requisites of a tasteful garb that the expression of effort to please shall be wanting in it; that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/surely-it-is-one-of-the-requisites-of-a-tasteful-garb-that-the/)

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> [To exist as an advertisement of her husband's income, or her father's generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/to-exist-as-an-advertisement-of-her-husband-s-income-or-her-father-s/)

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> [Superior music is purity itself; it clears the air.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/superior-music-is-purity-itself-it-clears-the-air/)

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> [... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/to-work-to-work-hard-to-see-work-steadily-and-see-it-whole-was-the/)

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> [Possibly the Creator did not make the world chiefly for the purpose of providing studies for gifted novelists; but if He had done so,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/possibly-the-creator-did-not-make-the-world-chiefly-for-the-purpose/)

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> [It seems to me that life is always undoing for us something that we have just laboriously done.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/it-seems-to-me-that-life-is-always-undoing-for-us-something-that-we/)

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> [It is in the comprehension of the physically disabled, or disordered ... that we are behind our age… sympathy as a fine art is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/it-is-in-the-comprehension-of-the-physically-disabled-or-disordered/)

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> [The rainiest nights, like the rainiest lives, are by no means the saddest.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-rainiest-nights-like-the-rainiest-lives-are-by-no-means-the/)

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> [... life is moral responsibility. Life is several other things, we do not deny. It is beauty, it is joy, it is tragedy, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/life-is-moral-responsibility-life-is-several-other-things-we-do-not/)

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> [The great law of denial belongs to the powerful forces of life, whether the case be one of coolish baked beans, or an unrequited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/the-great-law-of-denial-belongs-to-the-powerful-forces-of-life/)

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> [Death is not the worst sorrow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/death-is-not-the-worst-sorrow/)

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> [... it seems to have been my luck to stumble into various forms of progress, to which I have been of the smallest possible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-stuart-phelps-ward/it-seems-to-have-been-my-luck-to-stumble-into-various-forms-of/)

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