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She... kind o' heaves benefits at your head, same's she would bricks; but they're benefits just the same.
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There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
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You may have noted the fact that it is a person's virtues as often as his vices that make him difficult to live with.
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Why is it that the people with whom one loves to be silent are also the very ones with whom one loves to talk?
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They had settled down and invited fate to do its worst, an invitation which was promptly accepted.
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Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Born:
September 28, 1856
Died:
August 24, 1923
(aged 66)
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Kate Douglas Wiggin was an American educator and author of children's stories, most notably the classic children's novel Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm. She started the first free kindergarten in San Francisco in 1878.
Known for:
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
The Birds' Christmas Carol (1887)
New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907)
Penelope's English Experiences (1900)
The Story of Patsy (1883)
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