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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.
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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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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... possessiveness cannot accept it cannot even strike a fair bargain it has to confer.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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noise is a pollution.
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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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Of all damnable offenses preaching prudence to the young is the most damnable.
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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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