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“The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.”
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“It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .”
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“He liked to feel the soft little hand clasping his own fingers, so big and coarse in comparison, and happily so strong. For in the child's weakness he felt an infinite pathos; a being so entirely helpless, so utterly dependent upon others' love, standing there amid a world of cruelties, smiling and trustful.”
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“Nowhere is the English genius of domesticity more notably evident than in the festival of afternoon tea. The [...] chink of cups and the saucers tunes the mind to happy repose.”
― The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
― The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.”
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