"Tailor's work--the finishing of men's outside garments--was the "trade" learned most frequently by women in [the 1820s and 1830s],and one or more of my older sisters worked at it; I think it must have been at home, for I somehow or somewhere got the idea, while I was a small child, that the chief end of woman was to make clothing for mankind."

-- Lucy Larcom

#Children Quotes #Home Quotes #Men Quotes

“Ego is vital but not noble.”
“Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.”
“My father taught me that a bill is like a crying baby and has to be attended to at once.”
“Science is now the craft of the manipulation, substitution and deflection of the forces of nature. What I see coming is a gigantic slaughterhouse, an Auschwitz, in which valuable enzymes, hormones, and so on will be extracted instead of gold teeth.”
“All social life, stability, progress, depend upon each man's confidence in his neighbor, a reliance upon him to do his duty.”

Source : Abbott Lawrence Lowell (1944). “Facts and Visions: Twenty-four Baccalaureate Sermons”
“As a songwriter, you might write every day and throughout the course of a year you might get four songs that are really special.”
“In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.”

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“Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably”

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