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Quotes from The Country of the Pointed Firs — Sarah Orne Jewett

1849–1909 United States

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The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

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)

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Sarah Orne Jewett (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.