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Dorothy Nevill

(1826–1913) Horticulturist

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Dorothy Nevill was a horticulturist, best known for The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill.

Quick Facts About Dorothy Nevill

Born: January 1, 1826
Died: January 1, 1913
Profession: Horticulturist
Notable works: The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill
Spouse: Reginald Henry Nevill

About Dorothy Nevill

Lady Dorothy Fanny Nevill was an English writer, hostess, horticulturist, and plant collector from the Walpole and Nevill families. She was a founding member of the Conservative Primrose League, collected art, and cultivated a social network of talented friends including writers, artists, and politicians.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Dorothy Nevill

“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place but, far more difficult still,…

Art

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For a few political turncoats there is real excuse. One can hardly blame those whom one ministry have seen fit to throw…

Blame

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If all men and women were kept at some useful employment there would be less sorrow and wickedness in the world.

Employment

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“The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right place, but to leave unsaid the…

Art

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It is, I think, a good deal owing to the preponderance of the commercial element in Society that conversation has sunk to…

Chatter

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One of the vices of the virtue of decentralization is that people don't share ideas.

Business

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The poorest education that teaches self-control is better than the best that neglects it.

Discipline

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A valuable qualification of a modern politician seems to be a capacity for concealing or explaining away the truth.

Capacity

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conversation is now pretty well a lost art.

Art

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