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“That the lonesomest place in all the world is in a crowd in a big city.”

and you know you never know how much you use things, till you don’t have ’em.

Nice things are nicer when you’ve been worrying for fear they won’t be nice, aren’t they?”

“It’s – it’s infinitesimal to me. That means I don’t care, doesn’t it?”

Pollyanna did so love “different” things and people!

“Always, before, there have been BAD things for folks to play the game on, and the badder they are the more fun ’tis to get them out – find the things to be glad for, I mean.

For a woman who expects, because things are so bad, to be told that she need stand only one day at a time, it is disarming, to say the least[23], to be told that, because things are so good, it is lucky she does not HAVE to stand but one day at a time!

But I’ve had yesterday, and now I’m living today, and I’ve got to-morrow still coming, and next Sunday, too.

“Oh, Mrs. Carew, I’ve just been thinking how glad I am we don’t have to live but just one day at a time!”

I reckon the time to take frosting and good times is while they are going; so I want to see all I can now while I’m here.”