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• How absurd and delicious it is to be in love with somebody younger than yourself. Everybody should try it.
• [The woman] paused and seemed to take a deep breath. 'You see,' she declared. 'I am Tom Mallow's aunt.' Catherine's first instinct…
• Once outside the magic circle the writers became their lonely selves, pondering on poems, observing their fellow men ruthlessly, putting people they…
• I was so astonished that I could think of nothing to say, but wondered irrelevantly if I was to be caught with…
• Life is cruel and we do terrible things to each other.
• Oh, but it was splendid the things women were doing for men all the time, thought Jane. Making them feel, perhaps sometimes…
• Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.
• Perhaps I need some shattering experience to awaken and inspire me, or at least to give me some emotion to recollect in…
• Perhaps there can be too much making of cups of tea, I thought, as I watched Miss Statham filling the heavy teapot.…
• I love Evensong. There's something sad and essentially English about it.
• Dulcie always found a public library a little upsetting, for one saw so many odd people there...
• I stretched out my hand towards the little bookshelf where I kept cookery and devotional books, the most comfortable bedside reading.

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