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title: "1 Vermont Tradition Quotes By Dorothy Canfield Fisher"
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> [Vermont tradition is based on the idea that group life should leave each person as free as possible to arrange his own life. This freedom is the only climate in which (we feel) a human being may create his own…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/vermont-tradition-is-based-on-the-idea-that-group-life-should-leave/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

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## More by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

> [Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/life-takes-hold-of-us-with-strong-hands-and-makes-us-greater-than-we/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [“If we would give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want out of life that we give to the question…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/if-we-would-give-just-once-the-same-amount-of-reflection-to-what-we/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [Compared with more emotional types, Vermonters seem to have few passions. But those they have are great and burning. The greatest is their conviction…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/compared-with-more-emotional-types-vermonters-seem-to-have-few/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/on-new-year-s-day-every-calendar-large-and-small-has-the-same-number/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/a-mother-is-not-a-person-to-lean-on-but-a-person-to-make-leaning/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [What is life, but one long risk?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/what-is-life-but-one-long-risk/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [“How he loathed his life-long slavery to the clock, that pervasive intimate negative opposed to every spontaneous impulse. "It's the clock that is the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/how-he-loathed-his-life-long-slavery-to-the-clock-that-pervasive/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/father-sticks-to-it-that-anything-that-promises-to-pay-too-much-can-t/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [Professional psychologists seem to think that they are the only people who make sense out of human actions. The rest of us know that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/professional-psychologists-seem-to-think-that-they-are-the-only/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [one reason we haven't any national art is because we have too much magnificence. All our capacity for admiration is used up on the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/one-reason-we-haven-t-any-national-art-is-because-we-have-too-much/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/you-can-t-wish-a-body-any-worse-luck-than-to-get-what-he-wants/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [“Live while you can live, then die and be done with it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/live-while-you-can-live-then-die-and-be-done-with-it/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [Everyone bowed to that unwritten law of family life which ordains that, in the long run, everyone submerges his personal preference in the effort…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/everyone-bowed-to-that-unwritten-law-of-family-life-which-ordains/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/i-m-as-fixed-in-my-opinion-as-the-man-who-thought-he-was-a-hard/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

> [I've always noticed that nobody can be single-minded who isn't narrow-minded; and I think it likely that people who aren't so cocksure what they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dorothy-canfield-fisher/i-ve-always-noticed-that-nobody-can-be-single-minded-who-isn-t-narrow/)

[Dorothy Canfield Fisher](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dorothy-canfield-fisher/)

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