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Susan Warner: There is a...

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There is a world there, Winthrop, -- another sort of world -- where people know something; where other things are to be done than running plow furrows; where men may distinguish themselves! I want to be in that world.

Source: The Hills of the Shatemuc, Ch. 1, 1856.
-- Susan Warner, (Jul 11 1819-1885), US novelist; She wrote sentimental juvenile novels Wide, Wide World, 1851 and Queechy, 1852.


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