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A Literary Quote for the Day
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— Jane Andrews, Ten Boys Who Lived on the Road from Long Ago to Now (1885) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #238]
November 25, 2025 at 12:00 PM
-- Eugene Field, Lullaby Land (1910) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #224]
November 21, 2025 at 1:17 PM
You can say that again!
November 20, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Snorre Sturleson retold the same old stories, with others equally marvelous, in the Younger Edda.

-- Hamilton Wright Mabie, Norse Stories (1902) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #215]
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
the old stories of the battles of the gods and the giants that had been repeated for hundreds of years by Norse firesides in the long winter evening were brought together by some unknown man in Ireland, and were known henceforth at the Elder Edda; and a hundred years later
November 20, 2025 at 12:37 PM
spires of cities rising by the riversides or mingled with the sedge-like masts on the many-curved seacoast, in the same spots where they rise to-day.

-- George Eliot, Romola An Historically Illustrated Edition (1906) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #212 & #213]
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
the Western isles, saw nearly the same outline of firm land and unstable sea,--saw the same great mountain shadows on the same valleys as he has seen to-day,--saw olive mounts, and pine forests, and the broad plains green with young corn or rain-freshened grass,--saw the domes and
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
upon the life of men grows weaker and weaker!”

-- Count Lyof N. Tolstoi, What is Religion? (1902) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #207]
November 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM
-- Mary Hallock Foote, The Led-horse Claim (1908) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection #205]
November 16, 2025 at 1:59 PM
-- Louisa May Alcott, Jo’s Boys (1886, 1915) [Belle Waterbury Wood Collection]
November 13, 2025 at 1:10 PM