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I have noticed that rooms which are extra clean feel extra cold

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Dodie Smith
Age: 94 †
Born: 1896
Born: May 3
Died: 1990
Died: November 24
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Greater Manchester
Charles Henry Percy
C. L. Anthony
Dorothy Gladys Smith
Dorothy Gladys Beesley
Dorothy Beesley
Dodie Beesley
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How I wish I lived in a Jane Austen novel!
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And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.
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Cruel blows of fate call for extreme kindness in the family circle.
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Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.
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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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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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Stew's so comforting on a rainy day.
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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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Oh, it is wonderful to wake up in the morning with things to look forward to!
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Thinking of death--strange, beautiful, terrible and a long way off--made me feel happier than ever.
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But some characters in books are really real--Jane Austen's are and I know those five Bennets at the opening of Pride and Prejudice, simply waiting to raven the young men at Netherfield Park, are not giving one thought to the real facts of marriage.
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