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“If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree. ”
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“We are born with two incurable diseases, life, from which we die, and hope, which says maybe death isn't the end.”
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“It was, of course, a great failure in a woman's life - to never have achieved even a doomed and unsuccessful love. But she was not quite sure whether she had failed or not.
When she was young there had been moments, of course. But those moments had never amounted to much more than a little fever of admiration - a little flutter and agitation in a ballroom - so slight a feeling that the cautious Dido had never considered it a secure foundation for a lifetime of living together. And then, sooner or later, she had always made and odd remark, or laughed at the wrong moment, and the young men became alarmed or angry - and the flutter and the agitation all turned to irritation.
Dido could laugh and gossip about love as well as any woman but, deep down, she suspected that she had not the knack of falling into it.”
― Bellfield Hall: or, the observations of Miss Dido Kent
When she was young there had been moments, of course. But those moments had never amounted to much more than a little fever of admiration - a little flutter and agitation in a ballroom - so slight a feeling that the cautious Dido had never considered it a secure foundation for a lifetime of living together. And then, sooner or later, she had always made and odd remark, or laughed at the wrong moment, and the young men became alarmed or angry - and the flutter and the agitation all turned to irritation.
Dido could laugh and gossip about love as well as any woman but, deep down, she suspected that she had not the knack of falling into it.”
― Bellfield Hall: or, the observations of Miss Dido Kent
“I’m sorry your evening has been spoilt; I hope Juffrouw van Doorn won’t be too upset.’
‘She will be livid,’ he observed with calm. ‘Drink your brandy, it will prevent you catching cold.’ He leant over Bertie for a moment and listened to the dog’s snores. ‘He’ll be all right now.’
Becky sipped her brandy, wrinkling her nose. ‘This tastes very peculiar.’
Not a muscle of the Baron’s face moved. He would hardly have described his best Napoleon brandy as peculiar.”
― The Promise of Happiness
‘She will be livid,’ he observed with calm. ‘Drink your brandy, it will prevent you catching cold.’ He leant over Bertie for a moment and listened to the dog’s snores. ‘He’ll be all right now.’
Becky sipped her brandy, wrinkling her nose. ‘This tastes very peculiar.’
Not a muscle of the Baron’s face moved. He would hardly have described his best Napoleon brandy as peculiar.”
― The Promise of Happiness
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