| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 31018 |
| QUOTATION: | The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paperwhether little or great, it belongs to Literature. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Sarah Orne Jewett (18491909), U.S. author. Letter to author Willa Cather. The Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories, preface (1896). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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