"My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal……" — Eleanor Porter
"My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood."
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Eleanor Porter
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13 Quotes by Eleanor Porter
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I love different folks.
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One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that…
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Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
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What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always…
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It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when…
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Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas
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Just breathing isn't living!
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Oh, yes," nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to…
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
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... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want…
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... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find…
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