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> [Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong, what sex, and all that, instead of placidly coming out of unconsciousness to find it all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/imagine-how-terrifying-it-would-be-if-we-had-to-decide-the-beginnings/)

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## More by Mabel Osgood Wright

> [Why is it that so many people think that charity consists in giving away merely what they cannot use instead of the article the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/why-is-it-that-so-many-people-think-that-charity-consists-in-giving/)

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> [what's the good of having news an' ye must coop it? It's like cold veal pie upon the chest for supper, the same being…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/what-s-the-good-of-having-news-an-ye-must-coop-it-it-s-like-cold-veal/)

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> [Why has no one written a November rhapsody with plenty of lilt and swing? The poets who are moved at all by this month…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/why-has-no-one-written-a-november-rhapsody-with-plenty-of-lilt-and/)

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> [Neither a garden nor a gardener can be made in one year, nor in one generation even.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/neither-a-garden-nor-a-gardener-can-be-made-in-one-year-nor-in-one/)

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> [I have always noticed that when people consider others eccentric, it is because they are reveling in some form of enjoyment that their critics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/i-have-always-noticed-that-when-people-consider-others-eccentric-it/)

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> [It doesn't so much matter what one loves. To love is the transfiguring thing.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/it-doesn-t-so-much-matter-what-one-loves-to-love-is-the-transfiguring/)

[Mabel Osgood Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mabel-osgood-wright/)

> [even as human vitality is at its lowest ebb in the early morning, so it is with plant life in the early spring.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/even-as-human-vitality-is-at-its-lowest-ebb-in-the-early-morning-so/)

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> [what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/what-is-life-worth-if-one-has-nothing-to-give-away-this-lack-it-seems/)

[Mabel Osgood Wright](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mabel-osgood-wright/)

> [Mother love is invariably held sacred, as it should be, but why has father love never had its due?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/mother-love-is-invariably-held-sacred-as-it-should-be-but-why-has/)

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> [Nature, when undisturbed, is never monotonous, you know. Even when using green, the most frequent color on her palette, she throws in contrasting tints…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/nature-when-undisturbed-is-never-monotonous-you-know-even-when-using/)

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> [the various earth odors all have a separate tale to tell, and the leaf mold of the woods bears a wholly different fragrance from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/the-various-earth-odors-all-have-a-separate-tale-to-tell-and-the-leaf/)

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> [That is the stimulus of nature; it is never, never old, and always developing. Even the scarred, wrinkled earth herself is a mere infant…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/that-is-the-stimulus-of-nature-it-is-never-never-old-and-always/)

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> [Let everyone who makes garden plans frequently insert the letters C.P. in them as a reminder, the same standing for climate permitting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/let-everyone-who-makes-garden-plans-frequently-insert-the-letters-c-p/)

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> [Surely there is no greater garden for human-nature study than the flotsam and jetsam of the hospital.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/surely-there-is-no-greater-garden-for-human-nature-study-than-the/)

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> [Imagine how terrifying it would be if we had to decide the beginnings of things for ourselves: as to what race we should belong,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mabel-osgood-wright/imagine-how-terrifying-it-would-be-if-we-had-to-decide-the-beginnings/)

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