If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to … - Gene Stratton-Porter

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Without effort and change, human life cannot remain good. It is not a finished Utopia that we ought to desire, but a world where imagination and hope are alive and active.

Gene Stratton-Porter

If you are lazy, and accept your lot, you may live in it. If you are willing to work, you can write your name anywhere you choose.

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Now what is a guest? A thing of a day! A person who disturbs your routine and interferes with important concerns. Why should any one be grateful for company? Why should time and money be lavished on visitors? They come. You overwork yourself. They go. You are glad of it. You return the visit, because it's the only way to have back at them.

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To my way of thinking and working, the greatest service a piece of fiction can do any reader is to force him to lay it down with a higher ideal of life than he had when he took it up.

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Every intoxicating delight of early spring was in the air. The breeze that fanned her cheek was laden with subtle perfume and the crisp, fresh odor of unfolding leaves.

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I don't so much mind the falling, but I do seem to select the hardest spots to light on.

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Being dead was one thing, getting ready for a wedding another.

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