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“Somehow or other, though, you would always find you way to your own pattern, because I am sure you are following a pattern: your pattern of your life. You can embellish you pattern, or you can scamp it, but it is your pattern and so long as you are following it you will know harmony, and a mind at ease without itself.”
— Nov 08, 2021 01:52PM
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Sara
is on page 121 of 560
“I don’t think necessity is the mother of invention - invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness. To save oneself the trouble.”
— Nov 08, 2021 01:49PM
Sara
is on page 118 of 560
“My contemporaries were frequently badly off and couldn’t have a quarter of the things they wanted. Why then did we have so much enjoyment? Was it some kind of sap rising in us that has ceased to rise now? Have we cut it off with education and, worse, anxiety over education; anxiety as to what life holds for you?”
— Nov 07, 2021 01:50PM
Sara
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“You must always be polite to people whose position forbids them to be rude to you. If you are impolite, they will despise you, and rightly, because you have not acted like a lady.”
— May 20, 2021 01:49PM
Sara
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“In spite of these arduous duties, servants were, I think, actively happy, mainly because they knew they were appreciated as experts, doing expert work.”
— May 20, 2021 01:45PM
