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 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 mean country travel Hotel life is about the same in every latitude. Fanny Fern hotel life-is travel Why will parents use that expression? What right have you to have a favorite child? Fanny Fern parent expression children Blessed be sleep! We are all young then; we are all happy. Then our dead are living. Fanny Fern blessed young sleep A little oil makes machinery work easy. Fanny Fern oil easy littles One person is as good as another in New England, and better, too. Fanny Fern new-england england persons