Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em.
Quotes by Sara Orne Jewett
Sara Orne Jewett
(1849 - 1909)
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Tact is, after all, a kind of mind reading.
Sara Orne Jewett
(1849 - 1909)
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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.
Sara Orne Jewett
(1849 - 1909)
Source: The Courting of Sister Wisby, 1887
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