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• Dear Daddy-Long-Legs, You never answered my question and it was very important. ARE YOU BALD?

  Jean Webster

  Daddy, Long, Important

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.20, Jester House Publishing

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• Oh, I'm developing a beautiful character! It droops a bit under cold and frost, but it does grow fast when the sun shines. That's the way with everybody. I don't agree with the theory that adversity and sorrow and disappointment develop moral strength. The happy people are the ones who are bubbling over with kindliness.

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Disappointment, Character

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.35, Jester House Publishing

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• Half of the time I don't know what they're talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I'm a foreigner in the world and I don't understand the language.

  Jean Webster

  Past, Talking, Half

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• Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

  Jean Webster

  Process

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.30, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

  Jean Webster

  Sarcastic, Communication, Ideas

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy Long Legs”, p.84, Jean Webster

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• And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

  Jean Webster

  Children, Growing Up, Unhappy

  Jean Webster (2016). “Daddy Long-Legs and Dear Enemy: Illustrated”, p.65, Jester House Publishing

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• Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

  Jean Webster

  Mother, Father, Hair

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.24, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I have an evening dress, pink mull over silk (I'm perfectly beautiful in that), and a blue church dress, and a dinner dress of red veiling with Oriental trimming (makes me look like a Gipsy), and another of rose-coloured challis, and a grey street suit, and an every-day dress for classes. That wouldn't be an awfully big wardrobe for Julia Rutledge Pendleton, perhaps, but for Jerusha Abbott - Oh, my!

  Jean Webster

  Beautiful, Blue, Class

  Jean Webster (2015). “Daddy-Long-Legs”, p.17, Sheba Blake Publishing

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