Mary Cholmondeley Quotes

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Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence that will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long-run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of all the reins.'

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Sorrow with his pick mines the heart. But he is a cunning workman. He deepens the channels whereby happiness may enter, and hollows out new chambers for joy to abide in, when he is gone.

Mary Cholmondeley

A happy childhood is one of the best gifts that parents have it in their power to bestow.

Mary Cholmondeley

Mary Cholmondeley

Mary Cholmondeley

Born: June 8, 1859

Died: July 15, 1925 (aged 66)

Bio: Mary Cholmondeley was an English novelist. Her best-selling novel, Red Pottage, satirised religious hypocrisy and the narrowness of country life.

Known for:

Red Pottage (1899)
Diana Tempest (1893)
Moth and rust (1902)
The Danvers jewels (1887)

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