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Jean Webster Quote: “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?”

51. “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?”

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Jean Webster Quote: “You know that I’ve always had a very special feeling towards you; you.”

52. “You know that I’ve always had a very special feeling towards you; you.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “He paid me another visit this afternoon. I invited him to accommodate himself in one of Mrs. Lippett’s electric-blue chairs, and then sat down opposite to enjoy the harmony. He was dressed in a mustard-colored homespun, with a dash of green and a glint of yellow in the weave, a “heather mixture” calculated to add life to a dull Scotch moor. Purple socks and a red tie, with an amethyst pin, completed the picture. Clearly, your paragon of a doctor is not going to be of much assistance in.”

53. “He paid me another visit this afternoon. I invited him to accommodate himself in one of Mrs. Lippett’s electric-blue chairs, and then sat down opposite to enjoy the harmony. He was dressed in a mustard-colored homespun, with a dash of green and a glint of yellow in the weave, a “heather mixture” calculated to add life to a dull Scotch moor. Purple socks and a red tie, with an amethyst pin, completed the picture. Clearly, your paragon of a doctor is not going to be of much assistance in.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “There are such lots of adventures out in the fields! It’s much more entertaining to live books than to write them. Ow.”

54. “There are such lots of adventures out in the fields! It’s much more entertaining to live books than to write them. Ow.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “This new book is going to get itself finished – and published! You see if it doesn’t.”

55. “This new book is going to get itself finished – and published! You see if it doesn’t.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character,” she added solemnly, “is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.”

56. “Do you think a woman of that age is attractive if she deals in subterfuges and evasions? Character,” she added solemnly, “is a plant of slow growth, and the seeds must be planted early.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not.”

57. “I’m going to enjoy every second, and I’m going to know I’m enjoying it while I’m enjoying it. Most people don’t live; they just race. They are trying to reach some goal far away on the horizon, and in the heat of the going they get so breathless and panting that they lose sight of the beautiful, tranquil country they are passing through; and then the first thing they know, they are old and worn out, and it doesn’t make any difference whether they’ve reached the goal or not.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “You know, Daddy, it isn’t the work that is going to be hard in college. It’s the play. Half the time I don’t know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.”

58. “You know, Daddy, it isn’t the work that is going to be hard in college. It’s the play. Half the time I don’t know what the girls are talking about; their jokes seem to relate to a past that everyone but me has shared. I’m a foreigner in the world and I don’t understand the language.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I’ve had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out and try them on every little while. It’s all I can do not to wear them to classes.”

59. “Do you want to know something? I have three pairs of kid gloves. I’ve had kid mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real kid gloves with five fingers. I take them out and try them on every little while. It’s all I can do not to wear them to classes.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “Julia and Sallie and I all had new dresses. Do you want to hear about them? Julia’s was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids. It was a DREAM and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie’s.”

60. “Julia and Sallie and I all had new dresses. Do you want to hear about them? Julia’s was cream satin and gold embroidery and she wore purple orchids. It was a DREAM and came from Paris, and cost a million dollars. Sallie’s.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “Whereas a woman – whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge – is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

61. “Whereas a woman – whether she is interested in babies or microbes or husbands or poetry or servants or parallelograms or gardens or Plato or bridge – is fundamentally and always interested in clothes.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “She was by nature a sunny soul, and had always snatched the tiniest excuse to be amused.”

62. “She was by nature a sunny soul, and had always snatched the tiniest excuse to be amused.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: “Perhaps it’s all for the best,” when they are perfectly dead sure it’s not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I’m for a more militant religion!”

63. “The way people are forever rolling their eyes to heaven and saying: “Perhaps it’s all for the best,” when they are perfectly dead sure it’s not, makes me enraged. Humility or resignation or whatever you choose to call it, is simply impotent inertia. I’m for a more militant religion!”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “Where is the fun of living if you are going to make yourself a slave to all sorts of petty rules?” asked Patty wearily.”

64. “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

Jean Webster Quote: “When a couple of adopting parents are choosing a daughter, I stand by with my heart in my mouth, feeling as though I were assisting in the inscrutable designs of Fate. Such a little thing turns the balance! The child smiles, and a loving home is hers for life; she sneezes, and it passes her by forever.”

65. “When a couple of adopting parents are choosing a daughter, I stand by with my heart in my mouth, feeling as though I were assisting in the inscrutable designs of Fate. Such a little thing turns the balance! The child smiles, and a loving home is hers for life; she sneezes, and it passes her by forever.”

— Jean Webster

Jean Webster Quote: “These are the happiest girls I ever saw – and I am the happiest of all!”

66. “These are the happiest girls I ever saw – and I am the happiest of all!”

— Jean Webster

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