Expression Quote by Julia McNair Wright

“A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.” quote by Julia McNair Wright — Download Open image

“A good home owes it, as an expression of thankfulness for its own happiness, to try and make up something of the lack that is in other homes.”

Julia McNair Wright

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Plenty of sunshine is the very wine of life.

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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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