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"No Eliot, and no friend of an Eliot, could pass beneath [these trees] and not feel arms protectingly about them, and friendly hands leading them on to the inner sanctuary of the house and garden."

Any book that describes the personality of a property's trees for two pages is a good book to me!

Catching up! "Our wills are ours to make them thine!"

"Work cannot survive a completely jobless diet: it becomes either flat or fussy. "

"Your spouse is not an extension of you. Your spouse is a unique individual just like you are. Show up in your marriage and give your spouse room to show up too."

"Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me."

"...history is an extension of life. It both enlarges and intensifies the experience of being alive. It's like poetry and art. Or music. And it's ours, to enjoy. If we deny our children that enjoyment, that adventure in the larger time among the greater part of the human experience, we're cheating them out of a full life."

"Indifference to history isn't just ignorant, it's rude. It's a form of ingratitude."