Eleanor Porter Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. There is something about everything that you can be glad about, if you keep hunting long enough to find it.

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#4. 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.

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#5. Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

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#6. 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!

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#7. I love different folks.

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#8. The sun was slowly setting in the west, casting golden beams of light into the somber old room.

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#9. 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.

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#10. It isn't given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.

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#11. Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about - no matter what 'twas

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#12. There was a thoughtful frown on the face of the man who was the possessor of twenty million dollars.

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#13. It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it?

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#14. My relationship with 'Pollyanna' is a very personal one, because Pollyanna got me through my childhood.

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#15. Oh, yes, nodded Pollyanna, emphatically. He [her father] 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 [in the Bible] to be glad and rejoice, He must want us to do it - SOME.

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#16. 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.

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