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I hope the day will come when a wasp-waist and a pair of thin shoulders will not be esteemed beauty: we have had our ideas ruined by trash novels, praising 'fragile forms' and 'delicate beauty,' 'dainty waists,' 'snow-drop faces,' and a lot of other nonsense.

Julia McNair Wright
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Julia Mcnair Wright's Popular Quotes

Nothing so breaks the spirit as a load of debt.

- Julia Mcnair Wright

... there can be no real beauty without neatness and order.

- Julia Mcnair Wright

it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.

- Julia Mcnair Wright

Every home has its influences, for good or evil, upon humanity at large.

- Julia Mcnair Wright

fully half of Household miseries arise from a lack of order.

- Julia Mcnair Wright

the less you respect, the less respectable you are; the less you honor, the less in you is to be honored. There are those 'whom not to know argues on…

- Julia Mcnair Wright

What! nothing grand and noble to be admired, obeyed, copied? Ah, the lack is not without you, but within you!

- Julia Mcnair Wright

true courtesy ... is real kindness kindly expressed.

- Julia Mcnair Wright

disorder is the slowest worker in the universe.

- Julia Mcnair Wright
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