“Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.”

—  Sarah Orne Jewett , book The Country of the Pointed Firs

Source: The Country of the Pointed Firs (1896), Ch. 16

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American novelist, short story writer and poet 1849–1909

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