Phelps

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    Surely it is one of the simplest laws of taste in dress, that it shall not attract undue attention from the wearer to the worn.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    ... to work, to work hard, to see work steadily, and see it whole, was the way to be reputable. I think I always respected a good blacksmith more than a lady of leisure.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    ... we, like so many others who think more of working than of dying, care only to push on steadily, wishing less for cessation of toil than for strength to keep at it; and for wisdom to make it worthy of the ideal of labor and of life which we believe to be the most precious gift of Heaven to any soul.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)