# Quote — Kate Douglas Wiggin, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm

> Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World,

- Author: [Kate Douglas Wiggin](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-douglas-wiggin.md)
- Book: [Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm](https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-douglas-wiggin/rebecca-of-sunnybrook-farm.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/kate-douglas-wiggin/rebecca-of-sunnybrook-farm/great-wide-beautiful

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> Miranda Sawyer had a heart, of course, but she had never used it for any other purpose than the pumping and circulating of blood.”

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> The soul grows into lovely habits as easily as into ugly ones, and the moment a life begins to blossom into beautiful words and deeds, that moment a new standard of conduct is established, and your eager neighbors look to you for a continuous manifestation of the good cheer, the sympathy, the ready wit, the comradeship, or the inspiration, you once showed yourself capable of. Bear figs for a season or two, and the world outside the orchard is very unwilling you should bear thistles.

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