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I do love translating it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.

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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
Biographer
Journalist
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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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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Do you always laugh when you make love?' said Fabrice. I hadn't thought about it, but I suppose I do. I generally laugh when I'm happy and cry when I'm not. Do you find it odd?
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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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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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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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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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Nothing about human beings ever had the power to move me as a child. Black Beauty now ... !
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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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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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I am sometimes bored by people, but never by life.
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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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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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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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