English - Writer | January 31, 1893 - May 9, 1993
Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.
Freya Stark
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Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.
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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.
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If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age.
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The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.
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To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
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Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.
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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.
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Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.
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