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"This has two Christmas stories mixed in with the other short stories so I read those first. Tis the season for Christmas wonder! Pilcher is brilliant at developing fully created characters even in a short story.
It would be interesting to go through all of Pilcher’s books and take note of how many times she describes someone peeling potatoes in the kitchen. Real Life." — Dec 26, 2025 06:12AM
"This has two Christmas stories mixed in with the other short stories so I read those first. Tis the season for Christmas wonder! Pilcher is brilliant at developing fully created characters even in a short story.
It would be interesting to go through all of Pilcher’s books and take note of how many times she describes someone peeling potatoes in the kitchen. Real Life." — Dec 26, 2025 06:12AM
In the quiet peace of my consulting room I made my note. “You got back to England all right, then?”
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“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
― Lady Windermere's Fan
― Lady Windermere's Fan
“He drew a circle that shut me out-
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
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Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.
But love and I had the wit to win:
We drew a circle and took him In!”
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
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“Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.”
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“To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements. Lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness. But in that casket, safe, dark, motionless, airless, it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable. To love is to be vulnerable.”
― The Four Loves
― The Four Loves
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