Quote by Eleanor Roosevelt
The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that you

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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I think, at a childs birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall. – Eleanor Roosevelt

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Frank Harris has been received in all the great houses — once! – Oscar Wilde

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The ornaments of your home are the people who smile upon entering time and time again. – Maralee McKee

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Visitors are insatiable devourers of time, and fit only for those who, if they did not visit, would do nothing. – William Cowper

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Fish and visitors smell in three days. – Benjamin Franklin

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