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Love is the light that you see by.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

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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Couple Dispose Great Incarceration
When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH

Irony Mean Youth
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
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
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
I think that love is more like a light that you carry. At first childish happiness keeps it lighted and after that romance. Then motherhood lights it and then duty . . . and maybe after that sorrow.
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Love Motherhood Thinking
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
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
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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Hand Love Sorrow Woman
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy
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
In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Book Dream Rivers
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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Equality Labor Men Sight
Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
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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