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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Knole House
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others he will feel that time spent in company is time lost he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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