"I would recommend to those persons who are……" — Elizabeth von Arnim
"I would recommend to those persons who are inclined to stagnate, whose blood is beginning to thicken sluggishly in their veins, to try keeping four dogs, two of which are puppies."
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Elizabeth von Arnim
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25 Quotes by Elizabeth von Arnim
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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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If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot…
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The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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