Esther Meynell quotes
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“A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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“Books, to the reading child, are so much more than books-they are dreams and knowledge, they are a future, and a past.”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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“It is only after a fair portion of one's life that one really knows what are the things that matter, the things that will remain until the end.”
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“There is nothing in nature quite so joyful as the very young and silly lamb - odd that it should develop into that dull and sober animal the sheep.”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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“A horse, if he happens to have a contemptuous disposition, can sneer very effectively.”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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“Always, our eyes look backwards with the conviction that then, and not now, was the golden age.”
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“It is so often the odd, the unexpected, the apparently trifling, that stamps itself upon the memory for ever, while much more memorable things pass away like a breath of wind.”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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“Country things are the necessary root of our life - and that remains true even of a rootless and tragically urban civilization. To live permanently away from the country is a form of slow death.”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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“youthful days are longer than those of later years, as we all learn as we grow older ...”
-- Esther MeynellSource : Esther Meynell (1940). “A Woman Talking”, London, Chapman & Hall [1940.]
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Source : Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.216, Oxford University Press, USA
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“Consult the genius of the place, that paints as you plant, and as you work.”
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“I did it for the love of cash your honer, traffickin' cross the verrazano, coke dealin marijuana”
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Source : "Health-care sector vulnerable to hackers, researchers say" by Robert O'Harrow Jr., www.washingtonpost.com. December 25, 2012.
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