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• Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Heart, Blood, Purpose

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.23, e-artnow

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• There are certain narrow, umimaginative, and autocratic old people who seem to call out the most mischievous and sometimes the worst traits in children.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Children, People, Sometimes

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• 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.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Beautiful, Cheer, Inspiration

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.124, e-artnow

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• It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he had made his morning toilet.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Morning, Book, Rivers

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “HOMESPUN TALES TRILOGY: Rose o' the River, The Old Peabody Pew & Susanna and Sue (Illustrated): Three Small Town Novels in One Volume”, p.6, e-artnow

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• A real Christmas baby was not to be lightly named.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Baby, Real

  J. M. Barrie, Charles Dickens, Johanna Spyri, Louisa May Alcott, L. Frank Baum (2015). “Greatest Christmas Novels in One Volume: Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, Heidi, The Romance of a Christmas Card, The Little City of Hope, The Wonderful Life, Little Women, Anne of Green Gables, Little Lord Fauntleroy, Peter Pan…”, p.2600, e-artnow

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• To let blessed babies go dangling and dawdling without names, for months and months, was enough to ruin them for life.

  Kate Douglas Wiggin

  Baby, Blessed, Names

  Kate Douglas Wiggin (2015). “The Birds’ Christmas Carol (With Original Illustrations): Children’s Classic”, p.6, e-artnow

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