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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

In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Book Dream Rivers
Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Heart Lying Writing
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
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
Love is the light that you see by.
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Light Love See
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 was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Bigs Little Things
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then you set about to try and make it like the ideal. If you want a garden,-why, I guess you’ve got to dream a garden.
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Dream Garden Mind
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.
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Christmas Song Xmas
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
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Irony Mean Youth
There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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Division Heart Mother
The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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Antidote Grief World
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.
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Favors Living Men Way
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy