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Quotes from The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine — Harriet Beecher Stowe

1811–1896 United States

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In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.

The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)

The truth is the kindest thing we can give folks in the end.

The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)

That ignorant confidence in one's self and one's future, which comes in life's first dawn, has a sort of mournful charm in experienced eyes, who know how much it all amounts to.

The Pearl of Orr's Island : A Story of the Coast of Maine (1862)

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