It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
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Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.Sarah Orne Jewett
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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God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
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The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
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What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
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