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With the wonderful water round you curled

— Kate Douglas Wiggin Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1903)

Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World

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World, you are beautifully drest!”

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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)

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)

Salemina is so English! I can’t think how she manages. She is, in fact, more than English; she is British.

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And one man in his time plays many parts.

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