Eighteen maxims of neatness and order, by Theresa Tidy |
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... human comfort , no fine lady need despise the task of employing her hands as well as eyes in arranging the ménage which is the scene of it . By these means she will be better pre- pared to enter a cottage , should the changes of human ...
... human comfort , no fine lady need despise the task of employing her hands as well as eyes in arranging the ménage which is the scene of it . By these means she will be better pre- pared to enter a cottage , should the changes of human ...
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... human intercourse , and the beginning of jealous coldness . II . Never keep a professed receptacle for litter , which often degenerates into absolute rubbish , and never trust to a day of setting to rights : what is kept in its proper ...
... human intercourse , and the beginning of jealous coldness . II . Never keep a professed receptacle for litter , which often degenerates into absolute rubbish , and never trust to a day of setting to rights : what is kept in its proper ...
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... human frame , or the dwelling in which it resides ? and what more appalling to the faculties , than to open a drawer filled with things new and old , gloves dirty and clean , paired and unpaired , skeins of silk and cotton tangled in a ...
... human frame , or the dwelling in which it resides ? and what more appalling to the faculties , than to open a drawer filled with things new and old , gloves dirty and clean , paired and unpaired , skeins of silk and cotton tangled in a ...
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... dust upon her delicate shoulders . VI . Be aware that dust is one of the ene- mies of human comfort and purity . We discover it upon a black hat , and we for- get that the very same quantity adheres invisibly to a 20 EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF.
... dust upon her delicate shoulders . VI . Be aware that dust is one of the ene- mies of human comfort and purity . We discover it upon a black hat , and we for- get that the very same quantity adheres invisibly to a 20 EIGHTEEN MAXIMS OF.
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Page 3 - ... for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost...
Page 27 - ... life's highest prize her latest hour ; That hour, so late, is nimble in approach, That, like a post, comes on in full career : How swift the shuttle flies, that weaves thy shroud ! Where is the fable of thy former years ? Thrown down the gulf of time > as far from thee As they had ne'er been thine ; the day in hand, Like a bird struggling to get loose, is going...
Page 42 - Take care of small things, and great things will take care of themselves.
Page 29 - Never remain engaged in a favourite employment longer than the duties of the day will allow; and recollect that there is often more true diligence in leaving off than in beginning. Refrain, too, from taking up a book, or even a newspaper, merely because it happens to lie before you, though unattended by any circumstance to render it interesting, as it induces a desultory mode of reading, and enervates the mind.
Page 20 - Acquire a habit of folding or rolling up. Many a fine print or drawing has been ruined, many a cloak crumpled, and many a shawl trailed on the floor, for want of this timely neatness...
Page 18 - ... no time is so completely lost as in hunting for lost things ; but that is so much saved, which has been employed in providing a place for every article, and by that means enabled you to find it readily even in the dark. The necessity of a neat arrangement of letters, papers, and accounts, to...