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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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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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