tain't so pleasant as when poor dear was here. Oh, I didn't… - Sarah Orne Jewett

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tain't so pleasant as when poor dear was here. Oh, I didn't want to lose her an' she didn't want to go, but it had to be. Such things ain't for us to say; there's no yes an' no to it.

Sarah Orne Jewett

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Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American author and poet whose works were primarily set in her native New England.

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Birth Name: Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett

Alternative Names: Sara Orne Jewett • Sara Jewett • Sarah O. Jewett

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A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.

Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little things or great, But all good luck, you soon will learn, Must come to those who nobly earn. Who hunts the hay-field over Will find the four-leaved clover.

We are more likely to busy ourselves with finding things to do than in doing with our might the work that is in our hands already.

tain't so pleasant as when poor dear was here. Oh, I didn't want to lose her an' she didn't want to go, but it had to be. Such things ain't for us to… - Sarah Orne Jewett

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