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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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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.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

There's more women likes to be loved than there is of those that loves.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

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.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett

A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

~ Sarah Orne Jewett