Kate Douglas Wiggin - 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.

Kate Douglas Wiggin

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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