- Kate Douglas Wiggin
(09/28/1856 – 08/24/1923)
US writer (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), educator
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| "The man that has no friend at court, Must make the laws confine his sport, But he that has, by dint of flaws, may make his sport confine the laws."
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"Every child born into the world is a new thought of God, an ever fresh and radiant possibility."
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"Who were the fools who spread the story that
brute force cannot kill ideas? Nothing is easier. And once they are dead
they are no more than corpses."
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"His pictures seem to resemble not pictures but a sample book of patterns of linoleum."
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"It is stupid of modern civilization to have
given up believing in the devil, when he is the only explanation of it."
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"You can't sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces."
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"I don't meet competition. I crush it."
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"To be afraid is to behave as if the truth were not true."
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"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose."
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| Born 08/23 | Born 08/24 | Born 08/25 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 08/23 | Died 08/24 | Died 08/25 | Death Dates |