Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman quotes
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“No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.”
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“Cats love one so much - more than they will allow. But they have so much wisdom they keep it to themselves.”
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“The dog without his master was like a body without a soul.”
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanSource : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Charles Broughton (1901). “Understudies: Short Stories”
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“sometimes duties act on the soul like weeds on a flower. They crowd it out.”
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanSource : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.407, U of Nebraska Press
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“Nobility of character manifests itself at loop-holes when it is not provided with large doors.”
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanSource : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.125, U of Nebraska Press
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“When a man or a woman holds fast to youth, even if successfully, there is something of the pitiful and the tragic involved. It is the everlasting struggle of the soul to retain the joy of earth, whose fleeing distinguishes it from heaven, and whose retention is not accomplished without an inner knowledge of its futility.”
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“Any deviation from the ordinary course of life in this quiet town was enough to stop all progress in it.”
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanSource : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.132, U of Nebraska Press
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“Every builder builds somewhat for unknown purposes, and is in a measure a prophet.”
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins FreemanSource : Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman (1997). “A Mary Wilkins Freeman Reader”, p.131, U of Nebraska Press
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“The Cat was a creature of absolute convictions, and his faith in his deductions never varied.”
-- Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
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