... it is a most severe trial for those women to be called to lay down beauty, who have nothing else to take up. It is for this sober season of life that education should lay up its rich resources.
Hannah MoreIt is a sober truth that people who live only to amuse themselves work harder at the task than most people do in earning their daily bread.
Hannah MoreSince trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs.
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