Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

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Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be...

Praise is warming and desirable. But it is an earned thing. It has to be...

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect...

When blithe to argument I come, Though armed with facts, and merry, May Providence protect...

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation...

Gossip is the tool of the poet, the shoptalk of the scientist and the consolation...

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.

Compromise, if not the spice of life, is its solidity.

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror,...

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror,...

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an...

The trouble with gardening is that it does not remain an avocation. It becomes an...

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive...

Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive...

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she...

A lady is smarter than a gentleman, maybe, she can sew a fine seam, she...

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

In Australia, not reading poetry is the national pastime.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is...

I do not know who first invented the myth of sexual equality. But it is...

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace...

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace...

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable.

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of...

Who could deny that privacy is a jewel? It has always been the mark of...

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror,...

Sisters are always drying their hair. Locked into rooms, alone, they pose at the mirror,...

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

Gossip isn't scandal and it's not merely malicious. It's chatter about the human race by...

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it...

Marriage was all a woman's idea and for man's acceptance of the pretty yoke, it...

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Words can sting like anything, but silence breaks the heart.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.

Nothing fails like success; nothing is so defeated as yesterday's triumphant Cause.