You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

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.

I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.

'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.

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

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.