"My grandmother made her home at Fox How……" — Mary Augusta Ward
"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."
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Mary Augusta Ward
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25 Quotes by Mary Augusta Ward
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Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.
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Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system.
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A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a…
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As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.
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But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term.
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A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found…
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But no man has a monopoly of conscience.
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But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep.
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English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing…
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How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties…
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I cannot hope that what I have to say will be very interesting to many.
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I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867,…
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A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her…
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Well, knowledge is a fine thing, and mother Eve thought so; but she smarted so severely for hers, that most…
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A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise…
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I hate being clean-shaven. My daughter gets very upset if I shave and says, 'Bring back the spikes, Dad.'
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There is no friendship, no love, like that of the parent for the child.
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