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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
Dodie Smith
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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
Autobiographer
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Whitefield
Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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I could marry the Devil himself if he had some money.
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Am I really admitting that my sister is determined to marry a man she has only seen once and doesn't much like the look of? It is half real and half pretense - and I have an idea that it is a game most girls play when they meet an eligible young men. They just...wonder.
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Sometimes [the expression] old age has a kind of harrowing beauty. But elderly - ugh!
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Oh, comfortable cocoa!
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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Why is summer mist romantic and autumn mist just sad?
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Was I the only woman in the world who, at my age - and after a lifetime of quite rampant independence - still did not quite feel grown up?
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.
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Oh, wise young judge.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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I believe it is customary to get one's washing over first in baths and bask afterwards personally, I bask first. I have discovered that the first few minutes are the best and not to be wasted-- my brain always seethes with ideas and life suddenly looks much better than did.
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