I hate the word proper. If you tell me a thing is not proper, I immediately feel the most rabid desire to go 'neck and heels' into it. Fanny Fern More Quotes by Fanny Fern More Quotes From Fanny Fern Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma. Fanny Fern diploma doctors experience When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. Fanny Fern lasts wish book 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 rights past Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. Fanny Fern splendor new-york doe How strong sometimes is weakness! Fanny Fern weakness strong sometimes Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy. Fanny Fern gloomy dear reader Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one. Fanny Fern drawing favors lasts Oh! to be a child again. My only treasures, bits of shell and stone and glass. To love nothing but maple sugar. To fear nothing but a big dog. To go to sleep without dreading the morrow. To wake up with a shout. Not to have seen a dead face. Not to dread a living one. To be able to believe. Fanny Fern dog believe children Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes! Fanny Fern doctors advice giving 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. Fanny Fern clothes brother men No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence. Fanny Fern dependence tough bread 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. Fanny Fern taken healing book 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. Fanny Fern editors believe past Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son. Fanny Fern littles father son Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness. Fanny Fern pity envy gold they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. Fanny Fern dishonesty morality mean There are so many ready to write (poor fools!) for the honor and glory of the thing, and there are so many ready to take advantage of this fact, and withhold from needy talent the moral right to a deserved remuneration. Fanny Fern fool honor writing 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. Fanny Fern support letters mean Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers. Fanny Fern money light heart adversity is so rough a teacher! Fanny Fern adversity trouble teacher
