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I realize that it is as one ages and loses one's natural force that one is at the mercy of heredity. The young are themselves: the aging, their parents' children.
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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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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Young people are careless of their virginity one day they may have it and the next not.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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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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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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Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.
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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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Sneezes ... always sound much louder to the sneezer than to the hearers. It is an acoustical peculiarity.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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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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