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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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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One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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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 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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I wasn't educated. I was very lucky.
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Anticipation of pleasure is a pleasure in itself.
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I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.
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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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The baby romped on my lap like a short stout salmon.
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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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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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I seem to use this word 'kind' very frequently. When one is unhappy or anxious it is a quality one dwells on.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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