I've got 's much feelin' as the next one, but when folks drives in their spiggits and wants to draw a bucketful o' compassion every day right straight along, there does come times when it seems as if the bar'l was getting low.
Sarah Orne JewettConversation's got to have some root in the past, or else you've got to explain every remark you make, an' it wears a person out.
Sarah Orne JewettWho was it said that you never get to a place until a day after you come, nor leave it until a day after you go?
Sarah Orne JewettIn these days the young folks is all copy-cats, 'fraid to death they won't be all just alike; as for the old folks, they pray for the advantage o' bein' a little different.
Sarah Orne JewettYes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.
Sarah Orne JewettIn the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.
Sarah Orne Jewett