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Book by Jean Webster · 26 quotes · Jerusha Abbott, Bigs, Daddy Long Legs

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“One can't help thinking, Daddy, what a colourless life a man is forced to lead, when one reflects that chiffon and Venetian point and hand embroidery and Irish crochet are to him mere empty words. Whereas a woman- whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge- is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

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“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh - I really think that requires spirit. It's the kind of character that I am going to develop. I am going to pretend that all life is just a game which I must play as skillfully and fairly as I can. If I lose, I am going to shrug my shoulders and laugh - also if I win.”

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“I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!”

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“I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.”

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“I look forward all day to evening, and then I put an "engaged" on the door and get into my nice red bath robe and furry slippers and pile all the cushions behind me on the couch, and light the brass student lamp at my elbow, and read and read and read. One book isn't enough. I have four going at once. Just now, they're Tennyson's poems and "Vanity Fair" and Kipling's "Plain Tales" and - don't laugh - "Little Women." I find that I am the only girl in college who wasn't brought up on "Little Women." I haven't told anybody though (that would stamp me as queer). I just quietly went and bought it with $1.12 of my last month's allowance; and the next time somebody mentions pickled limes, I'll know what she is talking about!”

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“Non sono i grandi piaceri quelli che contano di più nella vita. È il saper approfittare delle piccole cose. Io, Papà, ho scoperto il vero segreto della felicità, che consiste nel vivere l'adesso, nel non rimpiangere in continuazione il passato o nell'anticipare il futuro, ma nel trarre il massimo possibile proprio dall'istante che stiamo vivendo. È come lavorare la terra: puoi avere un tipo di coltura estensiva o intensiva; be', io preferisco avere un tipo di vita "intensiva". Voglio godermi ogni secondo e sapere per certo di goderlo esattamente nel momento in cui lo godo.”

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“What do you think is my favourite book? Just now, I mean; I change every three days. "Wuthering Heights." Emily Bronte was quite young when she wrote it, and had never been outside of Haworth churchyard. She had never known any men in her life; how could she imagine a man like Heathcliff? I couldn't do it, and I'm quite young and never outside the John Grier Asylum - I've had every chance in the world. Sometimes a dreadful fear comes over me that I'm not a genius. Will you be awfully disappointed, Daddy, if I don't turn out to be a great author?”

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“Tu credi nel libero arbitrio? Io sì, senza riserve. Non sono per niente d'accordo con quei filosofi che ritengono che ogni azione sia assolutamente inevitabile e che il risultato venga automaticamente da un'aggregazione di cause remote. Questa è la dottrina più immorale di cui abbia mai sentito parlare: in questo modo nessuno dovrebbe essere biasimato per ciò che accade. Se un uomo crede nel fatalismo dovrebbe soltanto rimanere seduto e dire: “Che sia fatto il volere di Dio”, e continuare a stare immobile fino a che cade a terra stecchito. Io, invece, credo fermamente nella mia libera volontà e nel mio potere di agire in piena autonomia. È questa la forza che smuove le montagne.”

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