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> [“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my dresser, about The man worth while is the man who can smile, When everything goes dead wrong." "Take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/i-ve-tried-to-keep-pleasant-mabel-went-on-you-don-t-know-how-i-ve/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

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## More by Bess Streeter Aldrich

> [“And of course, everybody thinks it's just like it used to be when the Indians jazzed around and played 'You're it' with arrows.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/and-of-course-everybody-thinks-it-s-just-like-it-used-to-be-when-the/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [Things last so much longer than people.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/things-last-so-much-longer-than-people/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [You have to dream things out. It keeps a kind of an ideal before you. You see it first in your mind and then…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/you-have-to-dream-things-out-it-keeps-a-kind-of-an-ideal-before-you/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [It takes a small town to keep you humble.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/it-takes-a-small-town-to-keep-you-humble/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [“Hours fly...Flowers die.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/hours-fly-flowers-die/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [Christmas Eve was a night of song that wrapped itself about you like a shawl. But it warmed more than your body. It warmed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/christmas-eve-was-a-night-of-song-that-wrapped-itself-about-you-like/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/a-person-may-encircle-the-globe-with-mind-open-only-to-bodily-comfort/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [“Hair, to Tillie, meant nothing by way of being a woman's crowning glory. It was merely, as the dictionary so ably states, small horny,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/hair-to-tillie-meant-nothing-by-way-of-being-a-woman-s-crowning-glory/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [“...Uncle Harry Wentworth's dollar was turned deep under the sod. But though the sun shone on it and the rain fell, nothing ever came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/uncle-harry-wentworth-s-dollar-was-turned-deep-under-the-sod-but/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/when-i-was-young-i-had-no-means-or-time-and-now-i-have-the-means-and/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [They are the most painful tears in the world ... the tears of the aged ... for they come from dried beds where the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/they-are-the-most-painful-tears-in-the-world-the-tears-of-the-aged/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [“I've tried to keep pleasant," Mabel went on. "You don't know how I've tried. I have that verse pinned up on my dresser, about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/i-ve-tried-to-keep-pleasant-mabel-went-on-you-don-t-know-how-i-ve/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [“Then she laughed, a bubbling, deliciously girlish laugh, and the Thing relaxed its hold on her heart, turned up its toes, and died.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/then-she-laughed-a-bubbling-deliciously-girlish-laugh-and-the-thing/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [“All my girlhood I always planned to do something big…something constructive. It’s queer what ambitious dreams a girl has when she is young. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/all-my-girlhood-i-always-planned-to-do-something-big-something/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

> [It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bess-streeter-aldrich/it-was-true-she-thought-that-the-big-things-awe-us-but-the-little/)

[Bess Streeter Aldrich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/bess-streeter-aldrich/)

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