Gwen Raverat quotes
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“The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be dead before we got to the Dancing Class.”
-- Gwen RaveratSource : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.210, Clear Press Ltd
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“I have defined Ladies as people who did not do things themselves.”
-- Gwen RaveratSource : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.119, Clear Press Ltd
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“the chief thing I learnt at school was how to tell lies.”
-- Gwen RaveratSource : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.72, Clear Press Ltd
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“You can have no idea, if you have not tried, how difficult it is to find out anything whatever from an encyclopedia, unless you know all about it already ...”
-- Gwen RaveratSource : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.112, Clear Press Ltd
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“you may take it from me, that however hard you try - or don't try; whatever you do - or don't do; for better, for worse; for richer, for poorer; every way and every day: the parent is always wrong. So it is no good bothering about it. When the little pests grow up they will certainly tell you exactly what you did wrong in their case. But never mind; they will be just as wrong themselves in their turn.”
-- Gwen RaveratSource : Gwen Raverat (2003). “Period Piece: A Cambridge Childhood”, p.52, Clear Press Ltd
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“Oh, 'tis jesting, dancing, drinking Spins the heavy world around.”
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“When you dance and move around it creates a different reaction from the audience - they love it.”
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Source : "Naţionalitatea în artă" ("Nationality in Art") by A. C. Cuza, Bucureşti: Cartea Romaneasca, 1905.
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Source : "Some Notes on Workers' Education" by A. J. Muste, first published in "New International", Volume 2, No. 7 (pp. 225-227), www.marxists.org. December 1935.
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Source : Source: collider.com
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Source : Abraham Hayward (1858). “Biographical and Critical Essays: Reprinted from Reviews, with Additions and Corrections”, p.391
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