John Smith Phelps

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    What joy can the years bring half so sweet as the unhappiness they’ve taken away?
    —Logan Pearsall Smith (1865–1946)

    To exist as an advertisement of her husband’s income, or her father’s generosity, has become a second nature to many a woman who must have undergone, one would say, some long and subtle process of degradation before she sunk [sic] so low, or grovelled so serenely.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)