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.
BESS STREETER ALDRICHA 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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Sometime in their lives, everybody wanted to go home.
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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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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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Love is the light that you see by.
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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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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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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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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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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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It takes a small town to keep you humble.
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The greatest antidote in the world for grief is work, and the necessity of work.
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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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Regardless of the popular literary trend of the times, write the thing which lies close to your heart.
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not all clever words are true. … And inversely most things that are true are not clever.
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