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Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Junior was eleven. The statement is significant. There are a few peevish people in the world who believe that all eleven-year-old boys ought to be hung. Others, less irritable, think that gently chloroforming them would seem more humane.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Believe Boys Couple
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Book Dream Rivers
Our souls may all be equal in the sight of the Lord, but our gumption and ingenuity ain’t. So the results of man’s labor will never be equal.
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Equality Labor Men Sight
For though love has been ridiculed and disgraced, exchanged and bartered, dragged through the courts, and sold for thirty pieces of silver, the bright, steady glow of its fire still shines on the hearth-stones of countless homes.
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Fire Home Shine
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Home Sometimes Wanted
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Home Mother Running
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Bigs Little Things
Except for our higher order of minds we are like the little moles under the earth carrying out blindly the work of digging, thinking our own dark passage-ways constitute all there is to the world.
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Dark Order Thinking
You wouldn’t think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
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Hand Love Sorrow Woman
A person may encircle the globe with mind open only to bodily comfort. Another may live his life on a sixty-foot lot and listen to the voices of the universe.
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Feet Mind Voice
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
Things last so much longer than people.
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Lasts Longer People
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Antidote Grief World
Love is the light that you see by.
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Light Love See
Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
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Achieve Dating Girl