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My Family Tried To Educate Me In The Way They Thought A Young Woman Should Be. But I Wanted To Learn About Mathmatics. I Must Have Gotten That From My Father, He Was A Master Of Math And Science, And I Always Liked That Sort Of Thing, Too. Of Course My Mother And Father Did Not Agree With Me On Becoming More Educated In Mathmatics, But I Was Persistent And Eventualy They Gave In And I Was Taught By A Wonderful Teacher.

The Amount Of Relief And Comfort Experienced By The Sick After The Skin Has Been Carefully Washed And Dried, Is One Of The Commonest Observations Made At A Sick Bed.

For It May Safely Be Said, Not That The Habit Of Ready And Correct Observation Will By Itself Make Us Useful Nurses, But That Without It We Shall Be Useless With All Our Devotion.

A Human Being Does Not Cease To Exist At Death. It Is Change, Not Destruction, Which Takes Place.

[on Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He Was A Most Disagreeable Companion To My Fancy ... His Conversation Was A Procession Of One.