In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIt takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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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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It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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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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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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There is no division nor subtraction in the heart-arithmetic of a good mother. There are only addition and multiplication.
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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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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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You wouldn’t think that sorrow could be a light, would you, dearie? But it can. And then after that, service lights it. Yes. . . . I think that is what love is to a woman . . . a lantern in her hand.
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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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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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Love is the light that you see by.
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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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