​"A single fact is worth a folio of argument."
—Freeman Hunt, 1856.
Worth and Wealth, 1856, p. 217.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

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Come hear a local author and Victorian-era expert read from and discuss her internationally acclaimed historical fiction series "Tales of Chetzemoka," which appeals to teens and adults alike.
This charming series follows the romances and adventures of a group of friends in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest.  Books will be available for sale at the event. Mrs. Chrisman's works have been featured in The New York Times, the Edinburgh Book Review and many other publications around the world. She lives in Port Townsend.
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​"Let me here correct an impression that seems to prevail extensively as to the rewards of literary life.  It certainly has its rewards, and of the most delightful kind…  But so far as literature pays cash down it is not to be compared to —shoemaking, for instance."
—Gail Hamilton, 1870.
A Battle of the Books, 1870, pp. 267—268.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

​"Books and desk are essentials, "meat and drink," and wherever most convenient for use, would be best."
—Anonymous, 1883.
"Queries," Table Talk, November, 1883, p. 390.

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​"There is a masculine and a feminine element in all knowledge, and a man and woman in the same study extract only what their nature fits them to see—so that knowledge can be fully orbed only when the two unite in the search and share the spoils."
—Harriet Beecher Stowe, 1866.
Pearl of Orr's Island, 1866. p. 134.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

​"The [Ancient] Greeks said that barbarians did not speak, they twittered."
—Charles DeKay, 1898.
Bird Gods, 1898. p. 49.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

​"A great writer does not reveal himself here and there, but everywhere."
—James Russell Lowell, 1871.
My Study Windows, 1871, p. 261.

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​"I am going to get up a Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Prepositions.  Animals have certain natural means of defence.  They can bite, and prepositions cannot."
—Russell Lowell, 1894.
The Leisure Hour, 1894, p. 524.

Quotations of Quality A Commonplace Book of Victorian Advice, Wit, and Observations on Life

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