"Fat-witted" Quotes from Famous Books
... sense to making mistakes and you've started her to learning common-sense; but you let some one else shoulder her natural responsibilities and keep her from exercising her brain, and it'll be fat-witted before she's forty. A lot of girls find it mighty handy to start with mother to look after the housekeeping and later to raise the baby; but by and by, when mamma has to quit, they don't understand that the butcher has to be called down regularly ... — Old Gorgon Graham - More Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son • George Horace Lorimer |