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Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

History is worth reading when it tells us truly what the attitude toward life was in the past.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: What is life, but one long risk?

What is life, but one long risk?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

The minute your group gets so big you don't know anybody in it and they don't know you, there's hell to pay.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Father sticks to it that anything that promises to pay too much can't help being risky.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ...

Almost anything is enough to keep alive someone who wishes nothing for himself but time to write music ...

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

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 quotes: There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

There is no human relationship more intimate than that of nurse and patient, one in which the essentials of character are more rawly revealed.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

I'm as fixed in my opinion as the man who thought he was a hard-boiled egg.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: That room was full to the brim of something beautiful,...Its name was Happiness.

That room was full to the brim of something beautiful,...Its name was Happiness.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

Vermont is the only place in America where I ever hear thrift spoken of with respect.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature .

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

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

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 quotes: On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

On New Year's Day every calendar, large and small, has the same number of dates. But we soon learn that the years are of very different lengths.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

Help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnessary.

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

There's no such thing as luck. Nothing ever just happens to anybody ... nothing can really happen to a person till he lets it happen.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

What's the use of inventing a better system as long as there just aren't enough folks with sense to go around?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

The encounter with death is the great turning-point in the lives of those who live on.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

You think religion is what's inside a little building filled with pretty lights from stained glass windows. But it's not. It's wings! Wings!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

The most elementary experience of life proves that the effects of compulsion last exactly as long as the physical or moral club can be applied.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Life takes hold of us with strong hands and makes us greater than we thought.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Taking somebody's sacrifices is like taking counterfeit money. You're only the poorer.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

I declare! Sometimes it seems to me that every time a new piece of machinery comes into the door some of our wits fly out the window!

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

Not a thing had happened the way she had planned, no, not a single thing! But it seemed to her she had never been so happy in her life.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Libraries are the vessels in which the seed corn for the future is stored.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

You can't wish a body any worse luck than to get what he wants.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Gossip ... is only fiction produced by non-professionals.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

The actions of a human being, even of fifteen months of age, may not be without significance to a sympathetic eye.

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

What better can any of us do than to reach for our own stars ... and know which they are?

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

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

Dorothy Canfield Fisher quotes: What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.

What a fearfully distracting, perplexing and heart-searching business it is to live.