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Constance Fenimore Woolson
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“It is easy to be humble when a greater is preferred; but when an inferior is lifted high above our heads, how can we bear it?”
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“... warm-heartedness generally begins at home, and those who are warm to others are warmer to themselves; it is but the overflow.”
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“... a daughter's love for a kind father ... is mixed with the careless happiness of childhood, which can never come again. Into the father's grave the daughter, sometimes a gray-haired woman, lays away forever the little pet names and memories which to all the rest of the world are but foolishness.”
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“Are we to go out with trumpets and tell everything we know, just because it is true? Is there not such a thing as egotistical truthfulness?”
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“Time is not so all-erasing as we think.”
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“If we neglect our privileges, the gods take them from us ...”
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“My only wickedness is that I love you; my only goodness, the same.”
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“Theories are like scaffolding: they are not the house, but you can not build the house without them.”
Constance Fenimore Woolson, U.S. writer
(1840 - 1894)