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Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: Age Deeply Die Grow Love May Never Old Old Age Those Who Young

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A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: Lean Leaning Make Mother Person

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One of the many things nobody ever tells you about middle age is that it's such a nice change from being young.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: About Age Being Change Ever Many Middle Middle Age Nice Nobody Tells Things You Young

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If we would only give, just once, the same amount of reflection to what we want to get out of life that we give to the question of what to do with a two weeks' vacation, we would be startled at our false standards and the aimless procession of our busy days.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: Aimless Amount Busy Days False Get Give Just Life Once Only Our Out Question Reflection Same Standards Two Two Weeks Vacation Want Weeks Would

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Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: Appetites Conquered Human Human Nature Nature Subdue You Your

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Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: Back Doctors Eggs Nurses People Put Scrambled Shell Some Some People Think

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She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: About Carried Door Grease Had He Held Henry Him Led Line Once She Spots Steak Stove Thousand Thousand Times Times Towards Warned Where Which Yesterday

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Freedom is not worth fighting for if it means no more than license for everyone to get as much as he can for himself.

~Dorothy Canfield Fisher

Topics: Everyone Fighting Freedom Get He Himself License Means More Much Than Worth

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Author

Born: February 17th, 1879

Died: November 9th, 1958

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