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Sarah Orne Jewett on Books

1849–1909 United States

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Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Captain Littlepage had overset his mind with too much reading.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper — whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.

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