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# Maud Hart Lovelace

(1892–1980)   Writer   United States

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Maud Hart Lovelace was a writer from the United States, best known for *Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Betsy-Tacy #4)*.

## Quick Facts About Maud Hart Lovelace

Born April 25, 1892

Died March 11, 1980

Nationality United States

Profession Writer

Notable works Betsy and Tacy Go Downtown (Betsy-Tacy #4)

Spouse Delos W. Lovelace

## About Maud Hart Lovelace

Maud Hart Lovelace was an American writer best known for the Betsy-Tacy series.

##  Quotes by Maud Hart Lovelace

> [Betsy. The great war is on but I hope ours is over. Please come home. Joe.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/betsy-the-great-war-is-on-but-i-hope-ours-is-over-please-come-home-joe/)

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> [You have two numbers in your age when you are ten. It's the beginning of growing up.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/you-have-two-numbers-in-your-age-when-you-are-ten-it-s-the-beginning/)

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[Age](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/age/)

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> [The wastes of snow on the hill were ghostly in the moonlight. The stars were piercingly bright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/the-wastes-of-snow-on-the-hill-were-ghostly-in-the-moonlight-the/)

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[Hills](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hills/)

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> [In silence the three of them looked at the sunset and thought about God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/in-silence-the-three-of-them-looked-at-the-sunset-and-thought-about/)

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[Silence](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/silence/)

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> [“A house with nothing old in it seems - unseasoned.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/a-house-with-nothing-old-in-it-seems-unseasoned/)

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[Home](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/home/)

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> [The silence in the room had width, height, depth, mass and substance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/the-silence-in-the-room-had-width-height-depth-mass-and-substance/)

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[Depth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/depth/)

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> [“...the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say - Mr. Ray, Heaven to Betsy”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/the-poorest-guide-you-can-have-in-life-is-what-people-will-say-mr-ray/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [“After Commencement Day, the world!" Joe said. "With Betsy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/after-commencement-day-the-world-joe-said-with-betsy/)

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> [I'm finished with something, but I'm not beginning anything. That's wrong. When you finish something, you ought always to begin something new.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/i-m-finished-with-something-but-i-m-not-beginning-anything-that-s/)

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> [“New things are easier to do than old familiar things when there's going to be a change," Betsy decided profoundly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/new-things-are-easier-to-do-than-old-familiar-things-when-there-s/)

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> [“Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/our-lives-can-hold-just-so-much-if-they-re-filled-with-one-thing-they/)

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> [“The older I get the more mixed up life seems. When you're little, it's all so plain. It's all laid out like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/the-older-i-get-the-more-mixed-up-life-seems-when-you-re-little-it-s/)

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> [When there are boys you have to worry about how you look, and whether they like you, and why they like another…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/when-there-are-boys-you-have-to-worry-about-how-you-look-and-whether/)

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[Boys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/)

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> [“Betsy liked to talk. Her father always said she got it from her mother, and her mother always said she got it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/betsy-liked-to-talk-her-father-always-said-she-got-it-from-her-mother/)

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[Conversation](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conversation/)

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> [“I've got to stop thinking about myself so much--about how I look, how I'm impressing someone, whether I'm popular or not. I've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/i-ve-got-to-stop-thinking-about-myself-so-much-about-how-i-look-how-i/)

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[People](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/)

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> [I cannot remember back to a year in which I did not consider myself to be a writer, and the younger I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/i-cannot-remember-back-to-a-year-in-which-i-did-not-consider-myself/)

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> [People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/people-were-always-saying-to-margaret-well-julia-sings-and-betsy/)

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> [The most important part of religion isn't in any church. It's down in your own heart. Religion is in your thoughts, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/the-most-important-part-of-religion-isn-t-in-any-church-it-s-down-in/)

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[Church](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/church/)

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> [“This was Betsy and Tacy's private corner. Betsy's mother was a great believer in people having private corners, and the piano box…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/this-was-betsy-and-tacy-s-private-corner-betsy-s-mother-was-a-great/)

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[Personal space](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/personal-space/)

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> [“Betsy liked to read her stories aloud and she read them like an actress. She made her voice low and thrillingly deep.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/betsy-liked-to-read-her-stories-aloud-and-she-read-them-like-an/)

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> [She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/she-tried-to-act-as-though-it-were-nothing-to-go-to-the-library-alone/)

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> [“Thoughts are such fleet magic things. Betsy's thoughts swept a wide arc while Uncle Keith read her poem aloud. She thought of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/thoughts-are-such-fleet-magic-things-betsy-s-thoughts-swept-a-wide/)

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[Adventures](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/adventures/)

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> [Then he kissed her. Betsy didn't believe in letting boys kiss you. She thought it was silly to be letting first this…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/then-he-kissed-her-betsy-didn-t-believe-in-letting-boys-kiss-you-she/)

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> [“We're growing up," Betsy said aloud. She wasn't even sure she liked it. But it happened, and then it was irrevocable. There…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/we-re-growing-up-betsy-said-aloud-she-wasn-t-even-sure-she-liked-it/)

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> [“This going around with boys makes me sick," said Tacy. "I like Herbert Humphreys," said Tib. It was just like Tib to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/this-going-around-with-boys-makes-me-sick-said-tacy-i-like-herbert/)

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> [“She felt a little better about Leonard out here in the country. It was just being close to nature, she supposed. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/she-felt-a-little-better-about-leonard-out-here-in-the-country-it-was/)

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[Beauty](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/beauty/)

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> [“Betsy was so full of joy that she had to be alone. She went upstairs to her bedroom and sat down on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/betsy-was-so-full-of-joy-that-she-had-to-be-alone-she-went-upstairs/)

[Maud Hart Lovelace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/maud-hart-lovelace/)

[Aspirations](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/aspirations/)

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> [“Well, Betsy," he said, "your mother tells me that you are going to use Uncle Keith's trunk for a desk. That's fine.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/well-betsy-he-said-your-mother-tells-me-that-you-are-going-to-use/)

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[Author](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/author/)

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> [“All those resolutions she had made on Babcock's bay! How they had been smashed to smithereens! She wondered whether life consisted of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/all-those-resolutions-she-had-made-on-babcock-s-bay-how-they-had-been/)

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[Bright side](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bright-side/)

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> [We'll just have to find more flowers in the spring. That's when they bloom, tra la.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/we-ll-just-have-to-find-more-flowers-in-the-spring-that-s-when-they/)

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[Flower](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/flower/)

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> [“... the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will say.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/the-poorest-guide-you-can-have-in-life-is-what-people-will-say/)

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[Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/)

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> [Betsy returned to her chair, took off her coat and hat, opened her book and forgot the world again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/betsy-returned-to-her-chair-took-off-her-coat-and-hat-opened-her-book/)

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[Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/)

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> [Good things come, but they're never perfect; are they? You have to twist them into something perfect.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/good-things-come-but-they-re-never-perfect-are-they-you-have-to-twist/)

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> [“We're growing up and I don't like it," said Tacy, as they say at Heinz's later, drinking coffee.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/we-re-growing-up-and-i-don-t-like-it-said-tacy-as-they-say-at-heinz-s/)

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> [“Say, you told me you thought Les Miserables was the greatest novel ever written. I think Vanity Fair is the greatest. Let's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/say-you-told-me-you-thought-les-miserables-was-the-greatest-novel/)

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[Classic literature](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/classic-literature/)

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> [She thought of the library, so shining white and new; the rows and rows of unread books; the bliss of unhurried sojourns…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/she-thought-of-the-library-so-shining-white-and-new-the-rows-and-rows/)

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[Bliss](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bliss/)

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> [“They soon stopped being ten years old. But whatever age they were seemed to be exactly the right age for having fun.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/they-soon-stopped-being-ten-years-old-but-whatever-age-they-were/)

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[Childhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood/)

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> [“That's the way you have to be with boys," said Betsy. "Beam about their old football when you're dying to know whether…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/that-s-the-way-you-have-to-be-with-boys-said-betsy-beam-about-their/)

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[Boys](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/boys/)

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> [Come in early, so there'll be time to pop corn,' Mrs. Ray said. If she mentioned popping corn, they always came in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/come-in-early-so-there-ll-be-time-to-pop-corn-mrs-ray-said-if-she/)

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> [You might as well learn right now, you two, that the poorest guide you can have in life is what people will…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/maud-hart-lovelace/you-might-as-well-learn-right-now-you-two-that-the-poorest-guide-you/)

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