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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Clever Cleverness Inversely
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
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
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
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
Things last so much longer than people.
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Lasts Longer People
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Antidote Grief World
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Home Sometimes Wanted
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Book Dream Rivers
Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
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Home Mother Running
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
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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Heart Lying Writing
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy
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
Christmas 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 ALDRICH

Christmas Song Xmas
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