Sarah Orne Jewett

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1849-09-03

Books by Sarah Orne Jewett

The country of the pointed firs
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A white heron
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Deephaven
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Quotes by Sarah Orne Jewett

There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.
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I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
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The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room, like a gay little child who might suddenly appear in a doorway.
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There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
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The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
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The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain room, like a gay little child who might suddenly appear in a doorway.
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The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.
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There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged and fettered with work for which they have no fitness... I can't help believing that nothing is better than to find one's work early and hold fast to it, and put all one's heart into it.
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There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.
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I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.
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When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
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Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.
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