"I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew."

Lizzie Andrew Borden, American Celebrity

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"I knew there was an old axe down cellar; that is all I knew."

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"I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in."

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"I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs."

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"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know."

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"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter."

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"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron."

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"I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers."

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"In our heads we're all about 33 years old."

"Old foxes want no tutors."

"No one longs to live more than someone growing old."

"I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair."

"Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst."

"I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary."

"The Ancient Mariner would not have taken so well if it had been called The Old Sailor."

"It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."

"The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."

"That the poor are invisible is one of the most important things about them. They are not simply neglected and forgotten as in the old rhetoric of reform; what is much worse, they are not seen."

Explore more quotes by Lizzie Andrew Borden

"I said I thought first I was on the stairs; then I remembered I was in the kitchen when he came in."

"I think he came to the front door and rang the bell, and Maggie let him in, and he said he had forgotten his key; so I think she must have been down stairs."

"I don't know what I have said. I have answered so many questions and I am so confused I don't know one thing from another. I am telling you just as nearly as I know."

"My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter."

"Maggie went out of doors to wash the windows and father came out into the kitchen and said he did not know whether he would go down to the post office or not. And then I sprinkled some handkerchiefs to iron."

"I know what she used to do sometimes. She kept her best cape she wore on the street in there, and she used occasionally to go up there to get it and to take it into her room. She kept a great deal in the guest room drawers."

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