In the early forties and fifties almost everybody "had about enough to live on," and young ladies dressed well on a hundred dollars a year. The daughters of the richest man in Boston were dressed with scrupulous plainness, and the wife and mother owned one brocade, which did service for several years. Display was considered vulgar. Now, alas! only Queen Victoria dares to go shabby.
Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spi… - M. E. W. Sherwood
Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spi…
- M. E. W. Sherwood
I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and sa… - M. E. W. Sherwood
I should say tact was worth much more than wealth as a road to leadership.... I mean that subtle apprehension which teaches a person how to do and sa…
Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entoura… - M. E. W. Sherwood
Rome, like Washington, is small enough, quiet enough, for strong personal intimacies; Rome, like Washington, has its democratic court and its entoura…
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness… - M. E. W. Sherwood
This habit of free speaking at ladies' lunches has impaired society; it has doubtless led to many of the tragedies of divorce and marital unhappiness…
How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that … - M. E. W. Sherwood
How often the Presidency has simply meant that a man shall be abused, distrusted, and worked to death while he is filling the great office, and that …
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a pr… - M. E. W. Sherwood
The poor are always ragged and dirty, in very picturesque clothes, and on their poor shoes lies the earth of the Lacustrine period. And yet what a pr…
The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for wo… - M. E. W. Sherwood
The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for wo…
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime. - M. E. W. Sherwood
To look at and properly appreciate the British Museum is the work of a lifetime.
... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them. - M. E. W. Sherwood
... the English are very fond of being entertained, and ... they regard the French and the American people as destined by Heaven to amuse them.
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