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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
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"Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town" Quotes

A humorous portrayal of small-town life in Canada.

Quotes

It's a great thing to be alive and to be young and to be going up to the big city.

Stephen Leacock

youthexcitement

A man's own town is his own town, and the people in it are the people he's known all his life.

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communityhome

All you have to do is grow up, and you can't help but be a success.

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successgrowth

For everything we have missed, we have gained something else.

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perspectiveexperience

Life, as I have said, is no simple matter. Life, in fact, is a very complex thing.

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lifecomplexity

You can't crawl back into your mother's womb.

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moving onadulthood

The business of life is to go forward.

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progresslife

The man who never makes a mistake always takes orders from one who does.

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mistakeslearning

The trouble with marriage is that while every woman is at heart a mother, every man is at heart a bachelor.

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marriagerelationships

The only thing that would make us happy is to see the other fellow step on a banana peel.

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humorhappiness