If you keep your feathers well oiled the water of criticism will run off as from a duck's back.

Quote by Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards

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Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations...

Subject the material world to the higher ends by understanding it in all its relations...

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her...

New England is the home of all that is good and noble with all her...

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work...

Work is a sovereign remedy for all ills, and a man who loves to work...

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that...

If it is a relief to take your clothes off at night, be sure that...

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general...

We never can tell how our lives may work to the account of the general...

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of...

I prefer surveying for a week to spending a week in fashionable society even of...

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid...

The only trouble here is they won't let us study enough. They are so afraid...

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.

You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.