Mary Ellen Chase Quotes

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“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”
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“Christmas, children, is not a date. It is a state of mind.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

“There is no substitute for books in the life of a child. (1952)
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— Mary Ellen Chase

Manual labor to my father was not only good and decent for it's own sake but, as he was given to saying, it straightened out one's thoughts.

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Suffering without understanding in this life is a heap worse than suffering when you have at least the grain of an idea what it's all for.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Even one's yesterdays could not continue to stir and move in a man's mind unless there were a future for those yesterdays to make.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

Of all the excellent teachers of college English whom I have known I have never discovered one who knew precisely what he was doing. Therein have lain their power and their charm.

— Mary Ellen Chase

“Whatever laudable qualities the English may possess in their selection, preparation, and consumption of food, elegance, originality, diversity, and imagination are not among them.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.

— Mary Ellen Chase

“The greatest danger in any argument is that real issues often clouded by superficial ones, that momentary passions may obscure permanent realities.”

— Mary Ellen Chase

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