# Quote — Sarah Orne Jewett, The Country of the Pointed Firs

> 'Tain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

- Author: [Sarah Orne Jewett](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-orne-jewett.md)
- Book: [The Country of the Pointed Firs](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sarah-orne-jewett/the-country-of-the-pointed-firs.md)
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> The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man.

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> "Step in some afternoon," he said, as affectionately as if I were a fellow-shipmaster wrecked on the lee shore of age like himself.

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> Tact is after all a kind of mind-reading.

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