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A great idea is usually original to more than one discoverer. Great ideas come when the world needs them. Great ideas surround the world's ignorance and press for admission.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
It is impossible to forget the sense of dignity which marks the hour when one becomes a wage-earner... I felt that I had suddenly acquired value to myself, to my family, and to the world.
It ... (more Elizabeth Stuart Phelps quotes)
| A Comprehensive Study of American Writer Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, 1844-1911: Art for Truth's Sake (Studies in American Literature, 61) by Ronna Coffy Privett | |
| Biography - Phelps Ward, Elizabeth Stuart (1844-1911): An article from: Contemporary Authors Online by Gale Reference Team | |
| The silent partner. By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps. by Michigan Historical Reprint Series |
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