Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHRegardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHA great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHSometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHThe greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHJunior 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 ALDRICHIn 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIt takes a small town to keep you humble.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHSome girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIt was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHA 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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHFor 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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHChristmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed your heart…filled it, too, with melody that would last forever.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHOur 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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHBiggest affirmative argument I know in favor of ‘If a man die, shall he live again?’ is just the way you feel inside you that nothin’ can stop you from livin’ on.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHKatherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
BESS STREETER ALDRICHThere is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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