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Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern…
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The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
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Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
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A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
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There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care…
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Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
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I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
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I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
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Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
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You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it.…
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She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
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One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite…
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I feel now, that Arabia could easily be evangelized within the next thirty years if it were not for the wicked selfishness…
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.
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The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.
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We talked through Gillie's life from start to finish, including all her accomplishments and major life events. The woman fell asleep with…
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,'…
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The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly…
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