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Jean Webster (pseudonym for Alice Jane Chandler Webster, July 24, 1876 – June 11, 1916) was an American writer and author of many books including Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy. Her best-known books feature lively and likeable young female protagonists who come of age intellectually, morally, and socially, but with enough humor, snappy dialogue, and gently biting social commentary to make her books palatable and enjoyable to contemporary readers.

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I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.

Die, Maps, See, Sight, Terrible, Want

It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.

Count, Daddy, Discovered, Past, Pleasures, Regret

It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.

Book, Books, Live, Long Legs, Write, Writing

Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!

Awfully, Education, Process, Wearing

Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh- I really think that requires spirit!

Crush, Face, Laugh, Laughing, Rise, Thinking

I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.

Imagination, Necessary, People, Sympathetic, Thinking, Understanding

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.

Kind, Take, Way, World

Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and sympathetic and imaginative and forgiving and understanding - and He has a sense of humor.

Forgiving, Heaven, Understanding, Wish

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Belief, Believe, Mountain, Mountains, Moves, Moving

. . . in spite of being happier than I ever dreamed I could be, I'm also soberer. The fear that something may happen to you rests like a shadow on my heart. Always before I could be frivolous and carefree and unconcerned, because I had nothing precious to lose. But now -- I shall have a Great Big Worry all the rest of my life. Whenever you are away from me I shall be thinking of all the automobiles that can run over you, or the signboards that can fall on your head or the dreadful, squirmy germs that you may be swallowing.

Fall, Frivolous, Heart, Nothing, Rest, Running

I'm going to enjoy every second, and I'm going to know I'm enjoying it while I'm enjoying it. Most people don't live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn't make any difference whether they've reached the goal or not.

Beautiful, Country, Differences, Make, People, Reach

I went to bed last night utterly dejected; I thought I was never going to amount to anything, and that you had thrown away your money for nothing. But what do you think? I woke up this morning with a beautiful new plot in my head, and I've been going about all day planning my characters, just as happy as I could be. No one can ever accuse me of being a pessimist! If I had a husband and twelve children swallowed by an earthquake one day, I'd bob up smilingly the next morning and commence to look for another set. ~Jershua Abbott

Beautiful, Children, Earthquake, Morning, Smilingly

The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.

Boys, Men, Study, World

Is it snowing where you are? All the world that I see from my tower is draped in white and the flakes are coming down as big as pop-corns. It's late afternoon - the sun is just setting (a cold yellow colour) behind some colder violet hills, and I am up in my window seat using the last light to write to you.

Cold, Colder, White, Writing, Yellow

I ate breakfast in the kitchen by candle-light, and then drove the five miles to the station through the most glorious October colouring. The sun came up on the way, and the swamp maples and dogwood glowed crimson and orange and the stone walls and cornfields sparkled with hoar frost; the air was keen and clear and full of promise. I knew something was going to happen.

Air, Fall, Miles, Orange, Station, Wall

She never lets ideas interrupt the easy flow of her conversation.

Communication, Flow, Ideas, Interrupt, Sarcastic

And if I ever have any children of my own, no matter how unhappy I may be, I am not going to let them have any cares until they grow up.

Children, Growing Up, Let, Unhappy

This is your heart. Keep it locked until the chap turns up who has the key.

Chap, Chaps, Heart, Keep, Keys, Turns

Her mother was a Rutherford. The family came over in the ark, and were connected by marriage with Henry the VIII. On her father's side they date back further than Adam. On the topmost branches of her family tree there's a superior breed of monkeys with very fine silky hair and extra long tails.

Came, Father, Hair, Mother, Rutherford, Side

It seems to me that a man who can think straight along for forty-seven years without changing a single idea ought to be kept in a cabinet as a curiosity.

Cabinet, Men, Straight, Thinking, Years

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