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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.

— Sarah Orne Jewett The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896)

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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.

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I'd rather be my honest self
Than any made-up daisy.

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

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

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