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I wonder if there isn't a catch about having plenty of money? Does it eventually take the pleasure out of things?
Dodie Smith
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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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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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It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.
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...I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.
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Perhaps it would really be rather dull to be married and settled for life. Liar! It would be heaven.
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People's clothes ought to be buried with them.
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The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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I shouldn't think even millionaires could eat anything nicer than new bread and real butter and honey for tea.
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I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.
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Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.
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Death is too much to ask of the living.
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... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.
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