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A pity; because as soon as Uncle Willie arrived he really did seem to be the easiest person in the world to murder.
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“Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.”
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“Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“Never say goodbye because goodbye means going away and going away means forgetting.”
― Peter Pan
― Peter Pan
“If one believed in angels one would feel that they must love us best when we are asleep and cannot hurt each other; and what a mercy it is that once in every twenty-four hours we are too utterly weary to go on being unkind.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
“What a blessing it is to love books. Everybody must love something, and I know of no objects of love that give such substantial and unfailing returns as books and a garden.”
― The Solitary Summer
― The Solitary Summer
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