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Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals

PARTly in consequence of her Quaker training, and partly from her own
15/26

How many of Channing's sermons were instigated by her questions! ...

Miss Peabody must have been very remarkable as a young woman to ask the questions which she asked at twenty.
"April, 1881.

The waste of flowers on Easter Sunday distressed me.
Something is due to the flowers themselves.

They are massed together like a bushel of corn, and look like red and white sugar-plums as seen in a confectioner's window.
"A pillow of flowers is a monstrosity.

A calla lily in a vase is a beautiful creation; so is a single rose.


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