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One of the first things to be noted in business life is its imperialism. Business is exacting, engrossing, and inelastic.

— Margaret Elizabeth Sangster Winsome Womanhood (1900)

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My own opinion is that youthfulness of feeling is retained, as is youthfulness of appearance, by constant use of the intellect.

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In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

Every child's birthright is a happy home.

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Mind does dominate body. We are superior to the house in which we dwell.

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I know,—yet my arms are empty,
That fondly folded seven,
And the mother heart within me
Is almost starved for heaven.

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