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Half a loaf is better than no bread.

Half a loaf is better than no bread.

Julia McNair Wright
Gratitude, Bread, Half
Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

in a Home it must be order or ruin. Order is to the house as morality to the human being - a sheet-anchor.

Julia McNair Wright
Home, Order, Anchors
Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

human honesty has its varieties; so does human ignorance.

Julia McNair Wright
Honesty, Ignorance, Doe
Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

little every-day courtesies are called the small change of life; but we should be badly off in trade if we had no small change, and must always deal with twenty-dollar bills; while the small change mounts up to the great sum in a lifetime.

Julia McNair Wright
Life Changing, Small Changes, Littles
Julia McNair Wright (1879). “The Complete Home: an Encyclopædia of Domestic Life and Affairs: The Household in Its Foundation, Order, Economy ... A Volume of Practical Experiences Popularly Illustrated”

What is true of the individual will be true of the whole family; what is true of the family will be true of the community, and of the state.

Julia McNair Wright
Community, Individual, States
Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

Bustle, Sophronia, is not industry, as you very well know; people flutter and bustle about like a hen raising ducks, and then complain that their work has killed them, when it was the fuss that was the killing cause.

Julia McNair Wright
Stress, Ducks, People
Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

Julia McNair Wright
Appreciation, Ideas, Generosity
Julia McNair Wright (1895). “Ideal Homes, Or, Our Golden Mile-stones ...: A Volume of Practical Experices, Popularly Illustrated : Embracing All the Interests of the Household”

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