Stuart

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    Who originated that most exquisite of inquisitions, the condolence system?
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    I can remember no time when I did not understand that my mother must write books because people would have and read them; but I cannot remember one hour in which her children needed her and did not find her.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)

    The distractions, the exhaustions, the savage noises, the demands of town life, are, for me, mortal enemies to thought, to sleep, and to study; its extremes of squalor and of splendor do not stimulate, but sadden me; certain phases of its society I profoundly value, but would sacrifice them to the heaven of country quiet, if I had to choose between.
    —Elizabeth Stuart Phelps (1844–1911)