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"New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions."
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"There are a number of things wrong with Washington. One of them is that everyone is too far from home."

"Home is where they want you to stay longer."

"She herself had grown up without any one spot of earth being dearer than another: there was no center of earth pieties, of grave endearing traditions, to which her heart could revert and from which it could draw strength for itself and tenderness for others."

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home."
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"Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations to daily life and action."

"We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general good, and we are not wise enough to know if we have fulfilled our mission or not."

"If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that something is wrong. Clothes should not be a burden. They should be a comfort and a protection."

"I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of the best class."

"The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid we shall break down and you know the reputation of the College is at stake, for the question is, can girls get a college degree without ruining their health?"

"If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back."

"New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her sternness and uncompromising opinions."
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