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• Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed.

  Fanny Fern

  Caring, Past, Rights

  Fanny Fern (1868*). “Fern Leaves from Fanny's Portfolio ; And, Shadows and Sunbeams”

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• Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.

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  Food, Heart, Reflection

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.205

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• Show me an 'easy person,' and I will show you a selfish one. Good-natured he may be; why not? since the disastrous consequences of his 'easiness' are generally shouldered by other people.

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  Selfish, People, Why Not

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.114, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• You are taken sick; you send for a physician; he comes in, stays ten minutes, prescribes for you a healing medicine, and charges you three or four dollars. You call this 'extortionate' - forgetting the medical books he must have waded through, the revolting dissections he must have witnessed and participated in, and the medical lectures he must have digested, to have enabled him to pronounce on your case so summarily and satisfactorily.

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  Book, Taken, Healing

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.54

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• Fitz Allen had 'traveled;' and that is generally understood to mean to go abroad and remain a period of time long enough to grow a fierce beard, and fierce mustache, and cultivate a thorough contempt for everything in your own country.

  Fanny Fern

  Country, Travel, Mean

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio”, p.274

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• One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too.

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  England, Persons, New England

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.163

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• adversity is so rough a teacher!

  Fanny Fern

  Teacher, Adversity, Trouble

  Fanny Fern (1855). “Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time”, p.274

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• Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes!

  Fanny Fern

  Doctors, Giving, Advice

  Fanny Fern (1870). “Ginger-snaps”, p.280

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• Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers.

  Fanny Fern

  Money, Heart, Light

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Fern leaves from Fanny's port-folio”, p.91

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• When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.

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  Book, Wish, Lasts

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.274

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• Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son.

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  Father, Son, Littles

  Fanny Fern (1854). “Fern Leaves from Fanny's Port-folio: Second Series”, p.252

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• Why don't men ... leave off those detestable stiff collars, stocks, and things, that make them all look like choked chickens, and which hide so many handsomely-turned throats, that a body never sees, unless a body is married, or unless a body happens to see a body's brothers while they are shaving.

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  Brother, Men, Clothes

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.249

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• Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness.

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  Envy, Gold, Pity

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.19

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• Hotel life is about the same in every latitude.

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  Travel, Life Is, Hotel

  Fanny Fern (1855). “Ruth Hall: A Domestic Tale of the Present Time”, p.93

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• Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child?

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  Children, Expression, Parent

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.282

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• Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living.

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  Blessed, Sleep, Young

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at.

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  Mean, Morality, Dishonesty

  FANNY FERN (1857). “FRESH LEAVES”, p.19

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• Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself.

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  New York, Doe, Splendor

  Fanny Fern (2016). “Folly as It Flies”, p.166, The Floating Press

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• How strong sometimes is weakness!

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  Strong, Weakness, Sometimes

  Fanny Fern (1868). “Folly as it Flies”, p.310

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• Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.

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  Drawing, Favors, Lasts

  Fanny Fern (1873). “Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir”, p.278

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• I dare say you will try to make me believe that Editors are human. Now I deny that, for I myself have, in past days, had evidence to the contrary.

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  Believe, Past, Editors

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Caper-Sauce: A Volume of Chit-Chat about Men, Women, and Things”, p.8, The Floating Press

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• It is the most astonishing thing that persons who have not sufficient education to spell correctly, to punctuate properly, to place capital letters in the right places, should, when other means of support fail, send mss. for publication.

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  Mean, Support, Letters

  Fanny Fern (2015). “Ginger-Snaps”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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