Flora Thompson - Lark Rise (1939)

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Happiness depends more upon the state of mind — and body, perhaps — than upon circumstances and events.

Flora Thompson
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author.. reasoning poers must be brought to reinforce imagination.

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Words as to the inner emotions do not come readily to me, for I have led an isolated life mentally and spiritually.

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Any artwork needs time and patience and needs above a quiet mind.

Flora Thompson
'Poverty's no disgrace, but 'tis a great inconvenience' was a common saying among the Lark Rise peole.

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Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the world many generations of our forefathers, or where should we be now?

Flora Thompson
The human eye loves to rest upon wide expanses of pure color: the moors in the purple heyday of heather, miles of green downland, and the sea when it lies calm and blue and boundless, all delight it; but to some none of these, lovely though they all are, can give the same satisfaction of spirit as acres upon acres of golden corn. There is both beauty and bread and the seeds of bread for future generations.

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The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many...

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You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.

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There was no Victoria in the school... That great name was sacred to the Queen and was not copied by her subjects to the extent imagined by period novelists of today.

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'Thank God for my good dinner. Thank Father and Mother. Amen' was the grace used in one family, and it certainly had the merit of giving credit where credit was due.

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Readers have no doubt noticed how seldom builders live in houses of their own construction. You will find a town or village expanding in all directions with their masterpieces of modernity in the way of houses and bungalows; but the builder himself you will usually find living nearer the heart of things, snugly and comfortably housed in some more substantial, if less convenient, building of less recent date.

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Strict honesty was the policy of most of them; although there were a few who were said to 'find anything before 'tis lost' and to whom findings were keepings.

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The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.

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