21 Quotes by Eleanor Porter


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    One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.

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    ... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.

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    ... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

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    Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas

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    It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!

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    Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

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