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Alice Tisdale Hobart

(1882–1967) Novelist

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Alice Tisdale Hobart was a novelist.

Quick Facts About Alice Tisdale Hobart

Born: January 28, 1882
Died: March 14, 1967
Profession: Novelist

About Alice Tisdale Hobart

[Wikidata] American writer (1882-1967)... | [Wikipedia] Alice Tisdale Hobart born Alice Nourse in Lockport, New York, was an American novelist. Her most famous book, Oil for the Lamps of China, which was also made into a film, drew heavily on her experiences as the wife of an American oil executive in China amid the turmoil of the overthrow of the Qing d

Quotes by Alice Tisdale Hobart

What is memory for if not to fortify and sustain?

Alice Tisdale Hobart

Ifs

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Commerce unites; religion divides.

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Commerce

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To lose faith in oneself is to cease to create; to cease to create is to cease to exist.

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Cease

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There was bondage in love; no one had told her that love took away freedom.

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Bondage

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nothing is so binding as pity.

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Binding

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We are fast moving toward an aristocracy of health.

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Aristocracy

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we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we…

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Better way

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Every theory in medicine, if medicine is to remain healthy, must be beaten out on the anvil of skepticism. So do we…

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Anvils

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How much ... did the volume of disease in a nation account for its spirit? If so, the eradication of sickness, as…

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Accounts

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