Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love (1945)

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I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

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Spring came late, but when it came it was hand-in-hand with summer, and almost at once everything was baking and warm, and in the villages the people danced every night on concrete dancing floors under the plane trees...

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I loathe abroad, nothing would induce me to live there … and, as for foreigners, they are all the same, and they all make me sick.

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Uncle Matthew's four years in France and Italy between 1914 and 1918 had given him no great opinion of foreigners. 'Frogs,' he would say, 'are slightly better than Huns or Wops, but abroad is unutterably bloody and foreigners are fiends. '

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One's emotions are intensified in Paris — one can be more happy and also more unhappy here than in any other place.

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Aunt Sadie so much disliked hearing about health that people often took her for a Christian Scientist, which, indeed, she might have become had she not disliked hearing about religion even more.

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I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.

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The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life's essential unfairness.

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