Creative Quotations from Sarah Orne Jewett (1848-1909) born on Sep 3 US author; She was noted for stories depicting New England countryside charm, e.g.,The.

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Creative Quotations from Sarah Orne Jewett (1848-1909) born on Sep 3 US author; She was noted for stories depicting New England countryside charm, e.g.,The Life of Nancy, 1895.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

In the life of each of us… there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper…

'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.

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