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"'Thou gifest me such hope and courage, and I haf nothing to gif back but a full heart and these empty hands'
... she just put both hands into his, whispering tenderly, 'Not empty now,'" (462).

"'I'd gladly pull in the same boat with you, even if you had ti get your living by rowing on the lake'" (441).

"'I can't get on without my little woman any more than a-'" (439).

"'Lovely weather so far; I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship'" (439)

"And if difficulties were necessary to increase the splendor of the effort, what could be harder for a restless, ambitious girl than to give up her own hopes, plans, and desires, and cheerfully live for others?" (420).

"'How well we pull together, don't we?'
'So well that I wish we might always pull in the same boat'" (416).

1800s romance <3

"'You needn't go right back, need you?'
'Not if you want me, dear'" (414).

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"Let the boys be boys, the longer the better, and let the young men sow their wild oats if they must; but mothers, sisters, and friends may help to make the crop a small one, and keep many tares from spoiling the harvest, by believing, and showing that they believe, in the possibility of loyalty to the virtues which make men manliest in good women's eyes" (408).
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"Amy's lecture did Laurie good, though, of course, he did not own it till long afterward; men seldom do, for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do; then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it; if it fails, they generously give her the whole" (406).

"self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all" (402).

"It's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want" (397).