Katherine it was who took upon herself the complete charge of [Junior’s] speech. Not an insignificant “have went” nor an infinitesimal
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIt takes a small town to keep you humble.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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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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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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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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Our 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.
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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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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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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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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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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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Love is the light that you see by.
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