Childhood Quote by Jan Struther

“In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;” quote by Jan Struther — Download Open image

“In childhood the daylight always fails too soon -- except when there are going to be fireworks;”

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“...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.”

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One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

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I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on…

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swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

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Physical weather certainly is beyond our control. ... But human weather - the psychological climate of the world - is not beyond our control.…

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Scots are born exiles, and Scotland the perfect country to be exiled from. Do not imagine that I am running down Scotland. Far from…

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It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

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