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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

Betty Smith

…the reading, the observing, the living from day to day. It was something that had been born into her and her only – the something different from anyone else in the two families.
BETTY SMITH

Living Observing Reading Something Soul Two
If there was only one tree like that in the world, you would think it was beautiful. But because there are so many, you just can’t see how beautiful it really is.
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Beautiful Thinking Tree
There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.
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Bad People Person Unlucky
How much do they be paying you?” he asked mellowly. “The usual salary. A little more than they think I’m worth and a little less than I think I’m worth.
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Salary Thinking Usual
Well, there’s a little bit of man in every woman and a little bit of woman in every man.
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Littles Men Wells
You won’t die, Francie. You were born to lick this rotten life.
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Born Dies Rotten
She went out and took a last long look at the shabby little library. She knew she would never see it again.
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Eye Long Years
Everything, decided Francie after that first lecture, was vibrant with life and there was no death in chemistry. She was puzzled as to why learned people didn’t adopt chemistry as a religion.
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Firsts Lecture People
Is it not so that a son what is bad to his mother is bad to his wife?
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Mother Son Wife
There had to be dark and muddy waters so that the sun could have something to background it’s flashing glory.
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Dark Sun Water
Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.
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Children Printed Reading Word
Bad quarrels come when two people are wrong. Worse quarrels come when two people are right.
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People Quarrels Two
The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child’s life.
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Children Cities Important
But the penciled sheets did not seem like nor smell like the library book so she had given it up, consoling herself with the vow that when she grew up, she would work hard, save money and buy every single book that she liked.
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Book Hard Smell Work
She had had the pain; it had been like being boiled alive in scalding oil and not being able to die to get free of it
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Alive Oil Pain Scalding
We’ll leave now, so that this moment will remain a perfect memory…let it be our song and think of me every time you hear it.
BETTY SMITH

Memories Song Thinking

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

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