"I was gravely warned by some of my……" — Lydia M. Child
"I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book."
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Lydia M. Child
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42 Quotes by Lydia M. Child
Lydia M. Child has 42 quotes on this site.
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Belief in oneself is one of the most important bricks in building any successful venture.
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An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.
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The cure for all the ills and wrongs, the cares, the sorrows, and the crimes of humanity, all lie in…
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Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.
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Misfortune is never mournful to the soul that accepts it; for such do always see that every cloud is an…
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Home - that blessed word, which opens to the human heart the most perfect glimpse of Heaven, and helps to…
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Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does…
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None speak of the bravery, the might, or the intellect of Jesus; but the devil is always imagined as a…
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You find yourself refreshed in the presence of cheerful people. Why not make an honest effort to confer that pleasure…
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But…
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Woman stock is rising in the market. I shall not live to see women vote, but I'll come and rap…
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Yours for the unshackled exercise of every faculty by every human being.
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a…
— Richard Bach
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The life of a man who deliberately runs through his fortune often becomes a business speculation; his friends, his pleasures,…
— Honore de Balzac
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Almost all my middle-aged and elderly acquaintances, including me, feel about 25, unless we haven't had our coffee, in which…
— Martha Beck
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Early to bed and early to rise is a bad rule for anyone who wishes to become acquainted with our…
— George Ade
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There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra…
— Jello Biafra
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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I believe we shall come to care about people less and less. The more people one knows the easier it…
— Ambrose Bierce
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I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.
— Charles Bronson
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Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing,…
— Donald Cargill
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