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There are some women ... in whom conscience is so strongly developed that it leaves little room for anything else.
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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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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All encounters with children are touched with social embarrassment.
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To think of losing is to lose already.
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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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Wealth, if not a mere flash in the pan, compels the wealthy to become wealthier.
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When other helpers fail and comforts flee, when the senses decay and the mind moves in a narrower and narrower circle, when the grasshopper is a burden and the postman brings no letters, and even the Royal Family is no longer quite what it was, an obituary column stands fast.
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One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
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General de Gaulle is again pictured in our newspapers, looking as usual like an embattled codfish.
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[On an anarchist acquaintance:] Everything in appearance the most alarmist aunt could wish.
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cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.
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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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There are not enough poems in praise of bed.
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