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> [Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is written unless it contains at least one significant phrase that is worth waking up in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/now-everybody-who-knows-anything-at-all-knows-perfectly-well-that/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

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## More by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott

> [ “Then Night came down like the feathery soot of a smoky lamp, and smutted\[9\] first the bedquilt, then the hearth-rug, then the window-seat, and… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/then-night-came-down-like-the-feathery-soot-of-a-smoky-lamp-and/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“As far as I can reckon, a woman can stand absolutely anything under God's heaven that she knows; but she just up and can't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/as-far-as-i-can-reckon-a-woman-can-stand-absolutely-anything-under/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“You don't seem to understand," I whispered. "It's Christmas relationships that are worrying Carol and me so! It worries us dreadfully! Oh, of course…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/you-don-t-seem-to-understand-i-whispered-it-s-christmas-relationships/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [Supplementing the far, remote Glory-of-God expression in his face, the glory-of-doughnuts shone suddenly very warmly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/supplementing-the-far-remote-glory-of-god-expression-in-his-face-the/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“...a fellow's a fool when he marries who don't go to work deliberately to study and understand his wife. Women are awfully understandable if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/a-fellow-s-a-fool-when-he-marries-who-don-t-go-to-work-deliberately/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“More than being absurdly blond and absurdly messy, the Young Electrician had one of those extraordinarily sweet, extraordinarily vital, strangely mysterious, utterly unexplainable masculine…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/more-than-being-absurdly-blond-and-absurdly-messy-the-young/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [Now everybody who knows anything at all knows perfectly well that even a business letter does not deserve the paper on which it is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/now-everybody-who-knows-anything-at-all-knows-perfectly-well-that/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [the time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/the-time-to-grant-anybody-a-favor-is-the-day-the-favor-is-asked-for/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“Incidentally her head ached and her shoulders ached and her lungs ached and the ankle-bones of both feet ached quite excruciatingly. But nothing of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/incidentally-her-head-ached-and-her-shoulders-ached-and-her-lungs/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“Why, I've been all over the world, I tell you, and fairly loafed and lolled in every conceivable sort of ease and luxury, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/why-i-ve-been-all-over-the-world-i-tell-you-and-fairly-loafed-and/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [The Pretty Lady's brains were almost entirely in her fingers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/the-pretty-lady-s-brains-were-almost-entirely-in-her-fingers/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/love-was-a-fever-that-came-along-a-few-years-after-chicken-pox-and/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [I wish I could have lived just one day when the world was new. I wish—I wish I could have reaped just one single,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/i-wish-i-could-have-lived-just-one-day-when-the-world-was-new-i-wish/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [One was a Cartoon Artist with a heart like chiffon and a wit as accidentally malicious as the jab of a pin in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/one-was-a-cartoon-artist-with-a-heart-like-chiffon-and-a-wit-as/)

[Eleanor Hallowell Abbott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/)

> [“What? Do you dare smile and suggest for a moment that just because of the Absence between us I cannot make myself vivid to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eleanor-hallowell-abbott/what-do-you-dare-smile-and-suggest-for-a-moment-that-just-because-of/)

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