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Julia McNair Wright

(1840–1903) Writer

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Julia McNair Wright was a writer.

Quick Facts About Julia McNair Wright

Born: January 1, 1840
Died: January 1, 1903
Profession: Writer

About Julia McNair Wright

[Wikidata] American author b 1840... | [Wikipedia] Julia McNair Wright was an American writer. She published numerous temperance and anti-Catholic stories, among which were Almost a Nun; Priest and Nun; The Gospel in the Riviera; The Heir of Athole, Scenes of the Convent; A Wife Hard Won; A Million Too Much; The Complete Home; Bricks from Babel. Her

Quotes by Julia McNair Wright

Good manners are not bred in moments, but in years.

Julia McNair Wright

Good man

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I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have…

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Beauty

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What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

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Noble

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simplicity is a thing beautiful in itself, like clear light.

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Beautiful

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The grossest form of this injury of the body to ornament it, is in tattooing. Next, the piercing the ear all around…

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Bars

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the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There…

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Appreciation

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Home is the place where true politeness tells.

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Home

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Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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Life

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Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then…

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Bustle

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our contempt of wealth does not extend beyond the hour when we can get it in possession.

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Contempt

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For national and social disasters, for moral and financial evils, the cure begins in the Household.

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Cures

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If people could only be taught that economy is a thing of littles and of individuals, and of every day, and not…

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Domestic life

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Reaching toward perfection in any one thing should lift us higher in all things; it should beget a habit of application and…

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All things

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human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

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Doe

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fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

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Arise

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What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true…

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Being true

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Books form in us habits of thought which shall live forever with us.

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Book

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little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no…

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Bills

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We do not take much warning of our own mortality in seeing others die, nor of our own weakness in seeing others…

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Break

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Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no…

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Appreciation

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I don't lose an hour in the morning and expect to make it up in the evening; night is the wrong end…

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End of the day

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A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the…

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Expression

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The mind is a phonograph which shall keep and echo the impressions of the past.

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Echoes

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it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

Julia McNair Wright

Beginnings and endings

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disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

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Disorder

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