Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes About Values

Quotes about: Values

• It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  World, Impossible To Forget, Dignity

• It is not in our drawing-rooms that we should look to judge of the intrinsic worth of any style of dress. The street-car is a truer crucible of its inherent value.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Fashion, Drawing, Judging

• The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep,and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.

  Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward

  Country, Sleep, Sacrifice

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