The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“We'll never speak of 'last times,' Gilly, or where would any of us be? We'll always think of 'next' times. I shall trust Nancy next time, and next time and next time, and keep on trusting till I can trust… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If I haven't anything to write, I am just as anxious to 'take my pen in hand' as though I had a message to… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, With the wonderful water round you curled, And the wonderful grass upon your breast, World, you are beautifully drest!” — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
The old stage coach was rumbling along the dusty road that runs from Maplewood to Riverboro. The day was as warm as midsummer, though… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
If you make children happy now, you will make them happy twenty years hence by the memory of it. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“[Julia Carey] had never, even when very young, experienced a desire to sit at the feet of superior wisdom, always greatly preferring a chair… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
“Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
To make my diary a little different I am going to call it a Thought Book ... I have thoughts that I never can… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children. — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!.... Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
There are some who possess the magic touch, the infectious spirit of enthusiasm; who have the same effect as a beautiful morning that never… — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk? — Kate Douglas Wiggin Copy Share Image
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