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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Achieve Dating Girl
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

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
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
Love is the light that you see by.
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Light Love See
They are the most painful tears in the world … the tears of the aged … for they come from dried beds where the emotions have long burned low.
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Age Emotion Long Tears
not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Clever Cleverness Inversely
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Bigs Little Things
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Heart Lying Writing
Things last so much longer than people.
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Lasts Longer People
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
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
Biggest 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 ALDRICH

Favors Living Men Way
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Division Heart Mother
A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Couple Dispose Great Incarceration