Fanny Fern Quotes

She said it was beautiful to be loved, and that it made everything on earth look brighter.

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Never compel yourself to say words to which the heart yields no response.

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Would a harsh word ever fall from lips which now breathed only love? Would the step whose lightest footfall now made her heart leap, ever sound in her ear like a death knell?

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O, girls! set your affections on cats, poodles, parrots or lap-dogs; but let matrimony alone. It's the hardest way on earth to getting a living.

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