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He wore a glittering brass helmet much too large for him and looked, so my mother said, like a weevil in a nut.

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My mother didn't cherish me. For my first seven years she did, though doing her duty by me impeded the cherishing. Doing one's duty by hardens the heart against. Insensibly, we repudiate our good deeds, our filthy rags of righteousness.

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There was no reliance upon Hester's kindness. It was too much like the kindness of a mother cat who will wash her kitten's face whether the kitten wishes it or no.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner

Born: December 6, 1893
Died: May 1, 1978 (aged 84)
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