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 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.
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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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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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A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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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
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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Things last so much longer than people.
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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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Love is the light that you see by.
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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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Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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