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When you have wanted something very much, and didn’t know whether you would ever get it or not, and then all at once you find you have it, you almost wish it hadn’t come so soon!

— Kate Douglas Wiggin

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Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

Women never hit what they aim at, ... but if they shut their eyes and shoot in the air they generally find themselves in the bull's eye.

New Chronicles of Rebecca (1907)

With the wonderful water round you curled

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

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