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Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)
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When Riverboro fell into a habit of thought or speech, it saw no reason for falling out of it; at any rate, in the same century.
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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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They had settled down and invited fate to do its worst, an invitation which was promptly accepted.
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You allers was soft, and you allers will be. If 't wa'n't for me keeping you stiffened up, I b'lieve you'd leak out o' the house into the dooryard.
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Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.
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She passed in only two subjects... intending to let the stream of education play gently over her mental surfaces and not get any wetter than she could help.
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In England, the profession of the law is that which seems to hold out the strongest attraction to talent, from the circumstance, that in it ability, coupled with exertion, even though unaided by patronage, cannot fail of obtaining reward.
Charles Babbage
Kate Douglas Wiggin
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Born:
September 28, 1856
Died:
August 24, 1923
(aged 66)
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