Gene Stratton-Porter Quotes

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• Do you know that being a stranger is the hardest thing that can happen to any one in all this world?
• Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh…
• What you are lies with you. If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work,…
• Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.
• Nature can be trusted to work her own miracle in the heart of any man whose daily task keeps him alone among her sights, sounds…
• In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception
• There never was a moment in my life, when I felt so in the Presence, as I do now. I feel as if the Almighty…
• Is he well educated?" "Yes, I think so, as far as he's gone," I answered. "Of course he will go on being educated every day…
• But Aunt Margaret doesn't like boys," objected Elnora. "Well, she likes me, and I used to be a boy. ...
• ...The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in…
• I know men and women. An honourable man is an honourable man, and a liar is a liar; both are born and not made. One…
• To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to leave him with a higher…
• If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere…
• I do not know why it is the fate of the world always to want something different from what life gives them.
• No one in the whole world knows all a man's bignesses and all his littlenesses as his wife does

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