The Charm School Quotes

“You know how often we have longed for a sea voyage, as the fulfillment of all our dreams of poetry and romance, the realization of our highest conceptions of free, joyous existence.
Let me assure you, my dears. that going to sea is not at all the thing that we have taken it to be.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands.”
― Susan Wiggs, Harriet Beecher Stowe

“She inhaled air so damp it seemed to drench her lungs.”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“I can see the Lady has a genius for ruling, whilst I have a genius for not being ruled.
Jane Welsh Carlyle, (1845)”
― Susan Wiggs, The Charm School

“To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant. 
Amos Bronson Alcott, "Table Talk".”
― Amos Bronson Alcottt