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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
Nancy Mitford
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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
Biographer
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It's not just sitting and chatting to a person there are other things, you know.
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You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.
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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.
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If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry.
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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.
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To fall in love you have to be in the state of mind for it to take, like a disease.
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A typical Irish dinner would be: cream flavored with lobster, cream with bits of veal in it, green peas and cream, cream cheese, cream flavored with strawberries.
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And Left-wing people are always sad because they mind dreadfully about their causes, and the causes are always going so badly.
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There are worse things than poverty, though I can't for the moment remember what they are.
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It's a funny thing that people are always ready to admit it if they've no talent for drawing or music, whereas everyone imagines that they themselves are capable of true love, which is a talent like any other, only far more rare.
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The English lord marries for love, and is rather inclined to love where money is he rarely marries in order to improve his coat of arms.
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Chickens are cheerless birds, I advise you to keep geese which can be taught to follow like dogs, one needs all the companionship one can get in these days.
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What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.
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The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married.
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In France that is the one rule, never make trouble.
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Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
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Always be civil to the girls, you never know who they may marry' is a aphorism which has saved many an English spinster from being treated like an Indian widow.
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One thing about tourists is that it is very easy to get away from them. Like ants they follow a trail and a few yards each side of that trail there are none.
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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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