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• When she walked...she stretched out long and thin like a little tiger, and held her head high to look over the grass…
• My dear father; my dear friend; the best and wisest man I ever knew, who taught me many lessons and showed me…
• Wrecked on the lee shore of age.
• So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.
• The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -…
• Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was…
• You never get over bein' a child long's you have a mother to go to.
• This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight,…
• You must find your own quiet center of life, and write from that to the world.
• Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
• It seems to me like stealing, for men and women to live in the world and do nothing to make it better.
• It is a splendid thing to have the use of any gift of God. It isn't for us to choose again, or…

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