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Sarah Orne Jewett [1849-1909] American
Rank: 104
Author, Novelist


Sarah Orne Jewett was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern seacoast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important practitioner of American literary regionalism.

Age, Best, Friendship, Happiness



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Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of. Best, Friendship
101
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
102
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
103
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses. Happiness
104
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
105
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
106
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am. Age
107
God would not give us the same talent if what were right for men were wrong for women.
108

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