A great many good-natured folks contend that incarceration for a couple of years would prove the best way to dispose of them.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHIn 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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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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In 1846 the prairie town of Oak River existed only in a settler’s dream.
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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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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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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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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.
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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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Love is the light that you see by.
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thoughts are acrobats, agile and quite often untrustworthy.
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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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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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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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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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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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