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“But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“It is only very foolish folk who talk sense all the time." - Anne Shirley”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
“If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
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“Perhaps she had not succeeded in 'inspiring' any wonderful ambitions in her pupils, but she had taught them, more by her own sweet personality than by all her careful precepts, that it was good and necessary in the years that were before them to live their lives finely and graciously, holding fast to truth and courtesy and kindness, keeping aloof from all that savoured of falsehood and meanness and vulgarity. They were, perhaps, all unconscious of having learned such lessons; but they would remember and practice them long after they had forgotten the capital of Afghanistan and the dates of the Wars of the Roses.”
― Anne of Avonlea
― Anne of Avonlea
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