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We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
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Sylvia Townsend Warner
Age: 84 †
Born: 1893
Born: December 6
Died: 1978
Died: May 1
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Silvia Warner
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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My grandmother was unsurpassable at sitting. She would sit on tombstones, glaciers, small hard benches with ants crawling over them, fragments of public monuments, other people's wheelbarrows, and when one returned one could be sure of finding her there, conversing affably with the owner of the wheelbarrow.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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