Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the la… - Sarah Josepha Hale

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Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost.

Sarah Josepha Hale

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About Sarah Josepha Hale

Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (October 24, 1788 – April 30, 1879) was an American writer, activist, and editor of the most widely circulated magazine in the period before the Civil War, Godey's Lady's Book. She was the author of the nursery rhyme "Mary Had a Little Lamb". Hale famously campaigned for the creation of the American holiday known as Thanksgiving, and for the completion of the Bunker Hill Monument.

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Birth Name: Sarah Josepha Buell

Alternative Names: Sarah Josepha Buell Hale • Sarah J. Hale • Sarah Hale

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There is hardly a more heart-thrilling pleasure enjoyed by mortals, than that which parents feel when seeing their child first being able to 'catch knowledge of objects.'

Oh! wondrous power, how little understood,
Entrusted to the Mother's mind alone
To fashion genius, form the soul for good,
Inspire a West, or train a Washington!

Riches are always overestimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession.

Readers soon tire of prefaces, and skip them, and so the labor of writing them is lost. - Sarah Josepha Hale

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