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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.

Nancy Mitford

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Nancy Mitford
Age: 68 †
Born: 1904
Born: November 28
Died: 1973
Died: January 1
Biographer
Journalist
Novelist
Screenwriter
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London
England
Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Hon. Nancy Freeman-Mitford
Nancy Rodd
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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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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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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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If one can't be happy, one must be amused.
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Sisters are a shield against life's cruel adversity.
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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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the test of a cook is how she boils an egg. My boiled eggs are fantastic, fabulous. Sometimes as hard as a 100 carat diamond, or again soft as a feather bed, or running like a cooling stream, they can also burst like fireworks from their shells and take on the look and rubbery texture of a baby octopus. Never a dull egg, with me.
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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 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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Children should be like waffles--you should be able to throw the first one away.
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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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I do love translating it is the pure pleasure of writing without the misery of inventing.
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