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“Useful and ornamental needlework, knitting, and netting are capable of being made, not only sources of personal gratification, but of high moral benefit, and the means of developing in surpassing loveliness and grace, some of the highest and noblest feelings of the soul.” –Author unknown, from The Ladies’ Work Table Book, 1845

“The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.” –William Davis

“Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.” –Author Unknown

“If I stitch fast enough, does it count as aerobic exercise?” –Author Unknown

“Friends and neighbors complain that taxes are indeed very heavy, and if those laid on by the government were the only ones we had to pay, we might the more easily discharge them; but we have many others, and much more grievous to some of us. We are taxed twice as much by our idleness, three times as much by…

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“You’ve got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather was. “ –Irish Proverb

“Hem your blessings with thankfulness so they don’t unravel.” –Author Unknown

“Watch the little things; a small leak will sink a great ship.” –Benjamin Franklin

“Cleaning your house while your kids are still growing is like shoveling the walk before it stops snowing. “ –Phyllis Diller, Phyllis Diller’s Housekeeping Hints, 1966

“I cannot count my day complete ‘Til needle, thread and fabric meet.” –Author Unknown

“In the hopes of reaching the moon men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet.” –Albert Schweitzer

“Always watch where you are going. Otherwise, you may step on a piece of the Forest that was left out by mistake.” –Pooh’s Little Instruction Book, inspired by A.A. Milne