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Betty Smith Quotes: I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.
         

I wrote about people who liked fake fireplaces in their parlor, who thought a brass horse with a clock embedded in its flank was wonderful.


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Look at everything always as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time: Thus is your time on earth filled with glory.

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Oh, magic hour, when a child first knows she can read printed words.




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There are very few bad people. There are just a lot of people that are unlucky.



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In teaching your child, do not forget that suffering is good too. It makes a person rich in character.



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It is a good thing to learn the truth one's self. To first believe with all your heart, and then not to believe, is good too. It fattens the emotions and makes them to stretch.



People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.

People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.



From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.



Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.

Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life...And when I sleep, let me dream all the time so that not one little piece of living is ever lost.



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Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.





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