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"If he still were in England and were the man whom this girl loved, she would probably seek him out — women have almost a genius for anticlimaxes."
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Esther ForbesHuman relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for — Esther Forbes
"Human relations never seem to stand completely still. This apple, for instance. It might ripen into something better than it now was, or, unromantically, it might rot away in his pocket."
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Esther Louise Forbes was an American novelist, historian, and children's writer who received the Pulitzer Prize and the Newbery Medal. She was the first woman elected to membership in the American Antiquarian Society.
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"Most American heroes of the Revolutionary period are by now two men, the actual man and the romantic image. Some are even three men—the actual man, the image, and the debunked remains."
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"Just like the sun coming up yonder out of the sea, pushing rays of light ahead of it."
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"He had never in all his life slept in a bed alone — much less a whole room."
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"After that Johnny began to watch himself. For the first time he learned to think before he spoke."
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"We give all we have, lives, property, safety, skills ... we fight, we die, for a simple thing. Only that a man can stand up."
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