"She had turned her back upon them all……" — Louis Bromfield
"She had turned her back upon them all and no awful fate had overtaken her; instead, she had taken a firm hold upon life and made of it a fine, even glittering, success; and this is a thing which is not easily forgiven."
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Louis Bromfield
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9 Quotes by Louis Bromfield
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Houses, like people, have personalities, and, like the personalities of people, they are partly molded by all that has happened…
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Bread is the king of the table and all else is merely the court that surrounds the king. The countries…
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If what we already know were simply applied to all the agricultural land of the world and the problem of…
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There is a rhythm in life, a certain beauty which operates by a variation of lights and shadows, happiness alternating…
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It is simply that in all life on earth as in all good agriculture there are no short-cuts that by-pass…
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...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all…
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