Margaret Oliphant Quote

Life, though it is short, is very long, and contains so much. And one does not, to one's consciousness, change as one's outward appearance and capabilities do. Doesn't Mrs. Somerville say that, so far from feeling old, she was not always quite certain (up in the seventies) whether she was quite grown up!


The Autobiography and Letters of Mrs. M.O.W. Oliphant (1899)


Life, though it is short, is very long, and contains so much. And one does not, to one's consciousness, change as one's outward appearance and...

Life, though it is short, is very long, and contains so much. And one does not, to one's consciousness, change as one's outward appearance and...

Life, though it is short, is very long, and contains so much. And one does not, to one's consciousness, change as one's outward appearance and...

Life, though it is short, is very long, and contains so much. And one does not, to one's consciousness, change as one's outward appearance and...