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“most people worry so much, they think you're not right if you don't worry.”

“I wonder why people so commonly suppose that if two individuals are both writers they must therefore be hugely congenial.”

“Dramatic things always have a bitterness for some one.”

“A child that has a quick temper, just blaze up and cool down, ain't never likely to be sly or deceitful.”

“I love pretty things; and I hate to look in the glass and see something that isn't pretty. It makes me feel so sorrowful—just as I feel when I look at any ugly thing. I pity it because it isn't beautiful.”

“I don't like green Christmases. They're not green—they're just nasty faded browns and grays.”

“Doesn't matter what a person's name is as long as he behaves himself.”

“I'd rather look ridiculous when everybody else does than plain and sensible all by myself.”

“Cakes have such a terrible habit of turning out bad just when you especially want them to be good.”

“There is no use in loving things if you have to be torn from them, is there? And it's so hard to keep from loving things, isn't it?”

“That is one consolation when you are poor—there are so many more things you can imagine about.”

“Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse.”

“Don't believe in imagining things different from what they really are. When the Lord puts us in certain circumstances He doesn't mean for us to imagine them away.”

“I shall give life here my best, and I believe it will give its best to me in return.”

“Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.”

“It was October again ... a glorious October, all red and gold, with mellow mornings when the valleys were filled with delicate mists as if the spirit of autumn had poured them in for the sun to drain - amethyst, pearl, silver, rose, and smoke-blue. The dews were so heavy that the fields glistened like cloth of silver and there were such heaps of rustling leaves in the hollows of many-stemmed woods to run crisply through.”

“I believe flowers have souls. I have known roses that I expect to meet in heaven.”

“Few women are so beautiful and charming that they can afford to divest themselves of any portion of their charm; so they are very foolish to do so by smoking. It doesn't matter about men. Men look ugly and silly, too, when smoking. But it isn't beauty that matters with them-only strength”

“But feeling is so different from knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times when common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.”

“In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.”

“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.”

“There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more.”

“After all, what could you expect from a pig but a grunt?”

“Proverbs are all very fine when there's nothing to worry you, but when you're in real trouble, they're not a bit of help.”

“Humor is the spiciest condiment in the feast of existence. Laugh at your mistakes but learn from them, joke over your troubles but gather strength from them, make a jest of your difficulties but overcome them.”