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The bright flower was like a face. Somehow, the beauty and life of it were surprising in the plain r...

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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance that knows what you know. I see so many of...

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

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

I couldn't help thinkin' if she was as far out o' town as she was out o' tune, she wouldn't get back...

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I sho...

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The road was new to me as roads always are going back.

A harbor even if it is a little harbor is a good thing.... It takes something from the world and ...

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T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Find your quiet center of life and write from that to the world.

The process of falling in love at first sight is as final as it is swift in such a case, but the gro...

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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out o...

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The growth of true friendship may be a lifelong affair.

I now remembered that Mrs. Todd had told me one day that Captain Littlepage had overset his mind wit...

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A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets...

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endl...

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The Country of the Pointed Firs

It was mortifying to find how strong the habit of idle speech may become in one’s self. One need not...

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The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories

Yes'm old friends is always best 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out o...

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There are plenty of people dragging themselves miserably through the world, because they are clogged...

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A Country Doctor

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Sarah Orne Jewett

Novelist

Born: 1849-09-03

Died: 1909-06-24

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American author and poet whose works were primarily set in her native New England.More