Good Words from Good Books

"'Folks should always sing at their work', he insisted...'Not always, retorted Valancy.  'Fancy a butcher singing at his work.  Or an undertaker.'"  p. 126 "'People who don't like cats,' said Valancy, attacking her dessert with a relish,'always seem to think that there is some peculiar virtue in not liking them.'"  p. 100

"Just because it's a little town way out in the desert doesn't make the people meaner or dumber than anywhere else.  They'll believe the truth when they hear it just as fast as anybody else.  And if you think they envy you being a dude from the city you're wrong about that, too.  They like it where they live, that's why they live there."  p. 34