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I love different folks.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Different
Folks
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Be glad. Be good. Be brave.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Be Good
Brave
December
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Just breathing isn't living!
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
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Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Aunt
Havens
Pollyanna
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It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Pet
Cat
Dog
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It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Beginnings And Endings
Ends
Given
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The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Book
Light
West
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Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what 'twas
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Games
Matter
Pollyanna
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There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Men
Book
Thoughtful
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My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Childhood
Pollyanna
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It'll be just lovely for you to play -- it'll be so hard. And there's so much more fun when it is hard!
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Fun
Lovely
Play
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My relationship with "Pollyanna" is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Relationship
Childhood
Pollyanna
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... there is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Enough
Hunting
Long
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... if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it—SOME.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Eight
Trouble
Want
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You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Might
Night
Sleep
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The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Beautiful
Character
Heart
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Of course things you don't know about are always nicer'n things you do, same as the pertater on 'tother side of the plate is always the biggest.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Courses
Plates
Sides
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I should think you could be gladder on Monday mornin' than any other day in the week, because 'twould be a whole week before you'd have another one!
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Monday
Thinking
Week
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I long ago discovered that you can't TELL about Pollyanna. The minute you try to, she sounds priggish and preachy, and--impossible. Yet you and I know she is anything but that.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Long Ago
Sound
Trying
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One day it was about getting married that mother talked with me, and I said I was so glad that when you didn't like being married, or got tired of your husband, you could get Unmarried.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Getting Married
Husband
Married
Mother
One Day
Tired
Unmarried
Tired Me Day
Me Day Your
Talked
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'Oh, yes,' nodded Pollyanna emphatically. 'He said he felt better right away, that first day he thought to count 'em. He said if God took the trouble to tell us eight hundred times to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - some.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Eight
Ems
Father
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What men and women need is encouragement. Their natural resisting powers should be strengthened, not weakened ... Instead of always harping on a man's faults, tell him of his virtues. Try to pull him out of his rut ... Hold up to him his better self, his real self that can dare and do and win out! ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.
Eleanor Porter / Novelist
Encouragement
Heart
Real
Winning
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