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Dorothy Canfield Fisher
American
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About the author
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,
American
Author
#Freedom
#Fighting
#Worth
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
American
Author
#Love
#May
#Old
#Age
Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .
Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
American
Author
#Nature
#Human nature
Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
American
Author
#People
#Doctors
#Nurses
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,
American
Author
#Yesterday
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,
American
Author
#Want
#Life
#Question
#Reflection
#Vacation
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.
Dorothy Canfield Fisher,
American
Author
#Mother