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It’s genius simmering, perhaps. I’ll let it simmer, and see what comes of it,” he said, with a secret suspicion all the while that it wasn’t genius, but something far more common. Whatever it was, it simmered to some purpose, for he grew more and more discontented with his desultory life, began to long for some real and earnest work to go at, soul and body, and finally came to the wise conclusion that everyone who loved music was not a composer. ↗
Young people seldom turn out as one predicts, so it is of little use to expect anything,' said Mrs. Meg with a sigh. 'If our children are good and useful men and women, we should be satisfied; yet it's very natural to wish them to be brilliant and successful. ↗
Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is. ↗
…nothing remained but loneliness and grief… ↗
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…because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing. ↗
…I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart. ↗
Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands. ↗
