Famous quotes containing the words needle and/or receiving:
“I believe no gentleman would like to have his family affairs neglected because his wife was filling her head with crotchets and pothooks, and who, because she understood a few scraps of Latin, valued that more than minding her needle or providing her husband’s dinner.”
—Sarah Fielding (1710–1768)
“Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
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