"Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people,……" — Elizabeth von Arnim
"Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them."
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Elizabeth von Arnim
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25 Quotes by Elizabeth von Arnim
Elizabeth von Arnim has 25 quotes on this site.
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If your lot makes you cry and be wretched, get rid of it and take another; strike out for yourself;…
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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.
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Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every…
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The longer I live the greater is my respect for manure in all its forms.
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And the summer seems as though it would dream on for ever.
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She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction…
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Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every…
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For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately…
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I have been much afflicted again lately by visitors . . . and they gave me to understand that if…
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Home is the best place when life begins to wobble.
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Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her.…
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I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their…
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A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and…
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among the values of classical learning I estimate the Luxury of reading the Greek & Roman authors in all the…
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One of the great beauties of architecture is that each time, it is like life starting all over again.
— Renzo Piano
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Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties
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Her lips are roses over-washed with dew, Or like the purple of Narcissus' flower; No frost their fair, no wind…
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Statesmen and beauties are very rarely sensible of the gradations of their decay.
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
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To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and…
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This is the whole secret of non-attachment: live in the world, but don't be of the world. Love people, but…
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