"Women are so strangely constructed that they have……" — Eleanor Farjeon
"Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love."
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Eleanor Farjeon
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14 Quotes by Eleanor Farjeon
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Cats sleep Anywhere, Any table, Any chair, Top of piano, Window-ledge, In the middle, On the edge.
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Of what use to destroy the children of evil? It is evil itself we must destroy at the roots.
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On Hallowe'en the old ghosts come about us, and they speak to some; to others they are dumb.
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The events of childhood do not pass but repeat themselves like seasons of the year.
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Love has no uttermost, as the starshave no number and the sea no rest.
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In love there are no penalties and no payments, and what is given is indistinguishable from what is received.
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