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Let them find out things for themselves. It is the only true wisdom, and nobody wants even cake thrust down his throat.
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I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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Sara:
Morton, I want you to be a gentleman too.
Molly:
He can't, Sara. He's too poor; a man's got to have at least a hundred dollars to be a gentleman, and Morton hasn't but three cents.
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A great many times in this world, the hardest work we are given is just to sit to one side and neither speak, nor act. It is then prayer becomes an unspeakable blessing.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
Barbara Kingsolver
Fannie Ellsworth Newberry
Born:
May 7, 1848
Died:
1942
(aged 93)
Bio:
Fannie Ellsworth Stone Newberry wrote a long series of books, many of them stories for girls, of which the best seller was The Wrestler of Philippi.
Known for:
Sara, a Princess (1892)
The wrestler of Philippi (1896)
All Aboard (1898)
Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls
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