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Always in Alberta there is a fresh wind blowing.
Nellie L. McClung
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Literature may be light as a cobweb, but it must be fastened down to life at the four corners.
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A wound in a young heart is like a wound in a young tree. It does not grow out. It grows in.
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet but not nourishing.
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