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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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Musicologist
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Silvia Warner
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Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.
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The Church has lost a great religious poet in me but I have lost an infinity of fun in the church, so the loss is even.
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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Oh, I am all for singing. If I had had children I should have hounded them into choirs & choral societies, and if they weren't good enough for that, I would have sent them out, to sing in the streets.
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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.
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Is it the realization that people recently psychoanalyzed tend to be dreadful bores which makes the U.S.A. army reject them for the draft?
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For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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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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noise is a pollution.
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In the morning I had decided that henceforth I only cared for easy loves. It is so degrading to have to persuade people into liking one, or one's works.
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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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when the German propaganda tries to be winsome it is like a clown with homicidal mania - ludicrous and terrifying both at once.
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The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.
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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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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