If we grow old wisely, we lay ...

If we grow old wisely, we lay aside the senseless forms and meaningless conventions of society and go back to a more primitive mode of social intercourse, picking our friends the way children do, - because we like them, - spending time enough with them to get some real good out of them.
 Mary Heaton Vorse

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It was the spirit of the workers that was dangerous. The tired, gray crowds ebbing and flowing perpetually into the mills had waked and opened their mouths to sing.
 Mary Heaton Vorse
... peace is a militant thing ... any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war. No one can be a pacifist without being ready to fight for peace and die for peace.
 Mary Heaton Vorse
any peace movement must have behind it a higher passion than the desire for war.
 Mary Heaton Vorse