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Helen’s favorite books

The Pursuit of Love & Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford

My Turn to Make the Tea by Monica Dickens

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell

Far From the Madding Crowd by Thomas Hardy

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Helen’s Quotes

“In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.”
― Edna O'Brien, A Fanatic Heart: Selected Stories

tags: comment, depth, emotion, inadequacy

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“Moths, and all sorts of ugly creatures, hover about a lighted candle. Can the candle help it?”
― Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

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“His life was gentle; and the elements
So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up
And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!”
― William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar

tags: eulogy, inspirational-quotes

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“When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.”
― Edna O'Brien

tags: character, irish

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“If you want to know what a man's like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

tags: charles-bayard-mitchell

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