The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
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In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.Sarah Orne Jewett
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
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Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
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This was one of those perfect New England days in late summer where the spirit of autumn takes a first stealing flight, like a spy, through the ripening country-side, and, with feigned sympathy for those who droop with August heat, puts her cool cloak of bracing air about leaf and flower and human shoulders.
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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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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
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