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· <blockquote><a href="http://quotationsbook.com/author/3813/">Quotes by <em>Jewett, Sarah Orne</em></a></blockquote><br> From <a href="http://quotationsbook.com">Quotations Book</a> ·

Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 June 24, 1909) was an American author whose works were set in her native New England. Her most famous works include the 1896 novella The Country of Pointed Firs, and a short story, The White Heron. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"Wrecked on the lee shore of age."

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"It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out."

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"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."

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