I long ago discovered
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
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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
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
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
Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven’t left me any time at all just to- to live. Eleanor Porter
I love different folks. Eleanor Porter
There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars. Eleanor Porter
The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room. Eleanor Porter
My relationship with \”Pollyanna\” is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood. Eleanor Porter
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
Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about—no matter what ’twas Eleanor Porter