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Laddie: A True Blue Story QUOTES

Laddie: A True Blue Story QUOTES

21 " Maybe after all it's a good thing to tell people about their meanness and give them a stirring up once in a while. "

― Gene Stratton-Porter , Laddie: A True Blue Story

22 " I was ignorant at first of bookish subjects, but in his atmosphere, if one were no student, and didn't even try to keep up, or forge ahead, they would absorb much through association. "

― Gene Stratton-Porter , Laddie: A True Blue Story

23 " They knew so well how it felt, that they kept one bed in the boys' room, and any man who came at dusk got his supper, to sleep there, and his breakfast, and there never was anything to pay. The girls always scolded dreadfully about the extra washing, but mother said she slept on sheets when she came out, and some one washed them. "

― Gene Stratton-Porter , Laddie: A True Blue Story

24 " My mother was the best and most beautiful woman who ever lived. She was clean, and good, and always helped "the poor and needy who cluster round your door," like it says in the poetry piece, and there never could have been a reason why God would want a woman to suffer herself, when she went flying on horseback even dark nights through rain or snow, to doctor other people's pain, and when she gave away things like she did—why, I've seen her take a big piece of meat from the barrel, and a sack of meal, and heaps of apples and potatoes to carry to Mandy Thomas—when she gave away food by the wagonload at a time, God couldn't have wanted her to be hungry, and yet she was that very minute almost crying for food; "

― Gene Stratton-Porter , Laddie: A True Blue Story

25 " Mother was little but she was mighty. "

― Gene Stratton-Porter , Laddie: A True Blue Story