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Donald Grant Mitchell was an American essayist and novelist who usually wrote under the pen name Ik Marvel. Wikipedia  

✵ 12. April 1822 – 15. December 1908
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Reveries of a Bachelor
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Reveries of a Bachelor
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Famous Donald Grant Mitchell Quotes

“Coquetry whets the appetite; flirtation depraves it. Coquetry is the thorn that guards the rose—easily trimmed off when once plucked. Flirtation is like the slime on water-plants, making them hard to handle, and when caught, only to be cherished in slimy waters.”

Donald Grant Mitchell book Reveries of a Bachelor

Reveries of a Bachelor, or a Book of the Heart (1850), p. 78.

“But courage, and patience, and faith, and hope have their limit. Blessed be the man who escapes such trial as will determine limit!”

Donald Grant Mitchell

“The attempt to better one's condition is always praiseworthy; but it is only base and ignoble to attempt to cover one's condition with an idle smack of something larger.”

Donald Grant Mitchell

Source: My Farm of Edgewood (1863), P. 287

“I have no faith in cats: they are a cold-blooded race; they are the politicians among domestic animals; they care little who is master, or what are the over-turnings, so their pickings are secure; and what are their midnight caucuses but primary meetings?”

Donald Grant Mitchell

Source: My Farm of Edgewood (1863), P. 49

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