Sarah Orne Jewett - A White Heron (1886)

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I've found that people who look at things as they are, and not as they wish them to be, are the ones who succeed.

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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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