Sarah Orne Jewett Quotes

Yes'm, old friends is always best, 'less you can catch a new one that's fit to make an old one out of.

- Sarah Orne Jewett

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It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out. - Sarah Orne Jewett

Some set more by such things as come from a distance, but I rec'lect mother always used to maintain that folks was meant to be doctored with the stuff that grew right about 'em. - Sarah Orne Jewett

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back. - Sarah Orne Jewett