Yes'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 Jewett
Friendship, New, Always, Old One
What has made this nation great? Not its heroes but its households.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Heroes, Nation, Made, Households
Tact is after all a kind of mind reading.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Mind, Reading, Kind, Tact
When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Age, Confidence, Twenty-One, Suspect
It is the people who can do nothing who find nothing to do, and the secret to happiness in this world is not only to be useful, but to be forever elevating one's uses.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Nothing, Secret, Elevating, Useful
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper - whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Mind, Over, Last, Rightly
The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.
- Sarah Orne Jewett
Road, New, Always, Roads
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