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Mrs. H.O. Ward
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“True hospitality neither expects nor desires any return, and it is only the inhospitable that keep a debt and credit account.”
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“Work elevates, idleness degrades.”
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“Moral qualities rule the world, but at short distances the senses are despotic.”
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“... there is nothing so sad as lack of fine manners in a gentleman, except the lack of them in a lady.”
Mrs. H.O. Ward, U.S. writer
(1824 - 1899)
Real name: Clara Jessup Moore.