Father and Mother, and each other, said Beth contentedly from her corner.
Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!
But a time came when her patience gave out; and wearying of being a lion, she became a bear in nature as in name, and returning to her den, growled awfully when ordered out.
Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music so is statuary crystalized spirituality.
…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.
Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts.
Women work a good many miracles…
When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least…
WHERE 'S Polly? asked Fan one snowy afternoon, as she came into the dining-room where Tom was reposing on the sofa with his boots in the air, absorbed in one of those delightful books in which boys ar...
Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?
Never take advice!
I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy.
Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace.
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As to the other three, if they had been perfection they would not have been real girls, and you could not have wept over their trials and laughed over their pleasures.
…courage and devotion always stir generous hearts, and win admiration…
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.
You are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones.
Despairing
Dear me, let us be elegant or die.