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One does not miss what one has never had.
— Jean Webster
Youth has nothing to do with birthdays, only with ALIVEDNESS of spirit, so even if your hair is grey, Daddy, you can still be a boy.
— Jean Webster
Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,
You never answered my question and it was very important.
ARE YOU BALD? — Jean Webster
You never answered my question and it was very important.
ARE YOU BALD? — Jean Webster
It isn't the big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones.
— Jean Webster
think that every one, no matter how many troubles he may have when he grows up, ought to have a happy childhood to look back upon.
— Jean Webster
I saw a street car conductor today with one brown eye and one blue. Wouldn't he make a nice villain for a detective story?
— Jean Webster
You should see the way this college is studying!
— Jean Webster
It makes me almost hope I'm not a genius; they must be very wearying to have about - and awfully destructive to the furniture.
— Jean Webster
when we women get our rights, you men will have to look alive in order to keep yours.
— Jean Webster
Most people don't live; they just race.
— Jean Webster
I don't believe it pays to be a great author.
— Jean Webster
The only explanation I can think of is that he is insane, and there are so many insane people in the world that it isn't even interesting.
— Jean Webster
It seemed like an unachievable goal for one person to bring sunshine to one hundred little faces when what they need is a mother apiece.
— Jean Webster
Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.
— Jean Webster
The more I study men, the more I realize that they are nothing in the world but boys grown too big to be spankable.
— Jean Webster
The room marked with a cross is not where the murder was committed, but the one that I occupy.
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I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.
— Jean Webster
It's nice to look forward to, isn't it - a life of work and play and little daily adventures side by side with somebody you love?
— Jean Webster
I've been hearing about Shakespeare all my life, but I had no idea he really wrote so well; I always suspected him of going largely on his reputation.
— Jean Webster
Tis a thankless world
— Jean Webster
Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules? asked Patty wearily.
— Jean Webster
Dear Daddy, Do you observe the postmark?
— Jean Webster
This new book is going to get itself finished - and published! You see if it doesn't.
— Jean Webster
You must remember that you cannot form your character in a moment, my dear. Character is a plant of slow growth and the seeds must be planted early.
— Jean Webster
The awful thing about a vacation is that the moment it begins your happiness is already clouded by its approaching end.
— Jean Webster
Getting an education is an awfully wearing process!
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It's dreadful when two people's senses of humor are antagonistic. I don't believe there's any bridging that gulf!
— Jean Webster
It's the one touch of nature that makes the whole world kin. (That isn't original. I got it out of one of Shakespeare's plays). However,
— Jean Webster
She was by nature a sunny soul
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It is funny how certain places get connected with certain people, and you never go back without thinking of them.
— Jean Webster