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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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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
Biographer
Journalist
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Screenwriter
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.
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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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always either on a peak of happiness or drowning in black waters of despair they loved or they loathed, they lived in a world of superlatives
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Irish gardens beat all for horror. With 19 gardeners, Lord Talbot of Malahide has produced an affair exactly like a suburban golf course.
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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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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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Life itself, she thought, as she went upstairs to dress for dinner, was stranger than dreams and far, far more disordered.
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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees.
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oh how television diminishes everything.
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Most people like reading about what they already know - there is even a public for yesterday's weather.
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