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This love of money is the curse of American, and for the sake of it men will sell honor and honesty, till we don't know whom to trust, and it is only ...more

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The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely.

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But, like all happiness, it did not last long…

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I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this.

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How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.

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leave him free, and the mere sense of liberty would content him, joined to the knowledge that his presence was dear to those whom he loved best.

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The humblest tasks get beautified if loving hands do them.

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John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!

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...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till th...more

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…in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow.

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life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom.

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You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your hear...more

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I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them.

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Ah! Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands," cried the Professor, quite overcome.J...more

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…nothing remained but loneliness and grief…