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Kate Douglas Wiggin, born on September 28, 1856, and died on August 24, 1923, was an American author best known for her children's literature, particularly her novel 'Little Women', which has become a classic in American culture.

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Famous Kate Douglas Wiggin Quotes

“The world is always a new plaything to children, while to the old it seems falling to pieces from sheer dryness. Everything loses its value with time, but it is not the fault of the fruit, but of the mouth and the tongue.”

World Children Seems Values Fall Loses Pieces Mouths Faults Fruit Appreciation Tongue Sheer Falling To Pieces

Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

World Should Two Success Bears Seasons Unwilling Orchard Figs Thistles

Book:Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

Source: Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

“Most of all the other beautiful things in life come by twos and threes, by dozens and hundreds. Plenty of roses, stars, sunsets, rainbows, brothers, and sisters, aunts and cousins, but only one mother in the whole world.”

“The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.”

Source: REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels

“Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever-fresh and radiant possibility.”

“Never miss a joy in this world of trouble-that's my theory!.... Happiness, like mercy,is twice blest: it blesses those most intimately associated with it and it blesses all those who see it, hear it, touch it or breathe the same atmosphere.”

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Author:Kate Douglas Wiggin