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 JewettThere is something out of gear about graded schools and all that. Memory is developed at the expense of what in general we are pleased to call thought and character.
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 JewettIt is only unimaginative persons who can be really astonished. The imagination can always outrun the possible and actual sights and sounds of the world.
Sarah Orne Jewett