"Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession."

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Source : Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1835). “Traits of American Life”, p.212

Sarah Josepha Hale

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“The most important difference between these early American families and our own is that early families constituted economic unitsin which all members, from young children on up, played important productive roles within the household. The prosperity of the whole family depended on how well husband, wife, and children could manage and cultivate the land. Children were essential to this family enterprise from age six or so until their twenties, when they left home.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.”
“The very first email I got [was] from a women's group saying 'We don't want this stimulus package to just create jobs for burly men.'”
“The goal of cable news executives is not to make me an informed citizen of Earth. Their mission is to tickle the dark reptilian depths of my brain and hook me so they can then barter with my soul for advertising revenue.”
“Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (2015). “The New Dictionary of Thoughts”, p.94, Ravenio Books
“I love to have fun and goof around and be silly, so anybody who can also do that is good for me.”
“Halloween is huge in my house and we really get into the "spirits" of things.”
“As players, we always have a way to get back at you.”

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