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 More Quotes by Fanny Fern More Quotes From Fanny Fern Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate. Fanny Fern reflectionheartfood Experience is an excellent doctor, though he never had a diploma. Fanny Fern diplomadoctorsexperience When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books. Fanny Fern lastswishbook Hurry, drive and bustle ... Everybody looking out for number one, and caring little who jostled past, if their rights were not infringed. Fanny Fern caringrightspast Nowhere more than in New York does the contest between squalor and splendor so sharply present itself. Fanny Fern splendornew-yorkdoe How strong sometimes is weakness! Fanny Fern weaknessstrongsometimes Dear reader, true religion is not gloomy. Fanny Fern gloomydearreader Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one. Fanny Fern drawingfavorslasts 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 dogbelievechildren Advice is like a doctor's pills; how easily he gives them! how reluctantly he takes them when his turn comes! Fanny Fern doctorsadvicegiving 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 clothesbrothermen No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence. Fanny Fern dependencetoughbread 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 takenhealingbook 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 editorsbelievepast Every father knows at once too much and too little about his own son. Fanny Fern littlesfatherson Pity that gold should always bring with it the canker - covetousness. Fanny Fern pityenvygold they who are not fastidious as to the means, seldom fail of securing the result they aim at. Fanny Fern dishonestymoralitymean 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 foolhonorwriting Light hearts seldom keep company with heavy coffers. Fanny Fern moneylightheart adversity is so rough a teacher! Fanny Fern adversitytroubleteacher
