"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise……" — Fanny Kemble
"Yesterday morning I amused myself with an exercise of a talent I once possessed, but have so neglected that my performance might almost be called an experiment. I cut out a dress for one of the women."
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Fanny Kemble
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25 Quotes by Fanny Kemble
Fanny Kemble has 25 quotes on this site.
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Maids must be wives and mothers to fulfill the entire and holiest end of woman's being.
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Better trust all, and be deceived, And weep that trust and that deceiving, Than doubt one heart, that if believed…
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I never desire to know anything of the detail of political measures, lest even those which I think best should…
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They frequently find the truth who do not seek it, they who do, frequently lose it.
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I have sometimes been haunted with the idea that it was an imperative duty, knowing what I know, and having…
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I want to do everything in the world that can be done.
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A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these…
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I have been taking my daily walk round the island, and visited the sugar mill and the threshing mill again.
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Carols of gladness ring from every tree.
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The most intense curiosity and excitement prevailed, and though the weather was uncertain, enormous masses of densely packed people lined…
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Christmas is a season of such infinite labour, as well as expense in the shopping and present-making line, that almost…
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The whole gamut of good and evil is in every human being, certain notes, from stronger original quality or most…
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Unintelligent persons are like weeds that thrive in good ground; they love to be amused in proportion to the degree…
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It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one's self through the eyes of others,…
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You will be amused when you see that I have more than once deceived without the slightest qualm of conscience,…
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I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they…
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this…
— H.G. Wells
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No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret…
— Mary Wortley Montagu
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To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.
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To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the…
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I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse…
— Aubrey Beardsley
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Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such…
— Unknown Author
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The reader has certain rights. He bought your story. Think of this as an implicit contract. He's entitled to be…
— Larry Niven
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...stories about [the German composer Johannes] Brahms's rudeness and wit amused me in particular. For instance, I loved the one…
— Arthur Rubinstein
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