Quotes from book
Daddy-Long-Legs

Name: Daddy-Long-Legs
Author: Jean Webster

Daddy-Long-Legs is a 1912 epistolary novel by the American writer Jean Webster. It follows the protagonist, Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, as she leaves an orphanage and is sent to college by a benefactor whom she has never seen.

“The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way.”

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“Please be thinking about me. I'm quite lonely and I want to be thought about”

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“It's much more entertaining to live books than to write them.”

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“She was by nature a sunny soul”

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“I have a terrible wanderthirst; the very sight of a map makes me want to put on my hat and take an umbrella and start. I
shall see before I die the palms and temples of the South.”

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“‎Be careful not to keep your eyes glued to detail. Stand far enough away to get a perspective of the whole.”

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“Dear Daddy-Long-Legs,

You never answered my question and it was very important.

ARE YOU BALD?”

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“It isn't the big troubles in life that require character. Anybody can rise to a crisis and face a crushing tragedy with courage, but to meet the petty hazards of the day with a laugh—I really think that requires”

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“I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have is imagination. It makes people able to put themselves in other people's places. It makes them kind and sympathetic and understanding.”

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“I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.”

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