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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.

Bess Streeter Aldrich

Mrs. Schneiderman’s theory of life was that earth held no sorrow that food could not heal.
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Earth Food Sorrow
Things last so much longer than people.
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Lasts Longer People
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
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
Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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Home Sometimes Wanted
It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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Humble Keep Small Towns
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
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
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
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
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Bigs Little Things
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
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
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
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
thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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Acrobats Quite Untrustworthy

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