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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “I wasn’t educated. I was very lucky.”

51. “I wasn’t educated. I was very lucky.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “Love amazes, but it does not surprise.”

52. “Love amazes, but it does not surprise.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.”

53. “Reason is a poor hand at prophecies.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.”

54. “Laura was not in any way religious. She was not even religious enough to speculate towards irreligion.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.”

55. “I cannot love people in the country, I discover, because there is always this danger that they may be acquaintances, with all the perils and choleras of acquaintance implicit in them; but in London they seem as charming as rabbits.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

56. “The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.”

57. “I have an idea that conscience impedes quite as many merits as faults, is a sort of alloy, a nickel which may prevent silver from bending but also prevents it from shining.”

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.”

58. “There is a moral, of course, and like all morals it is better not pursued.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.”

59. “One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “As for her own share in the matter, she felt no shame at all. It had pleased Satan to come to her aid. Considering carefully, she did not see who else would have done so. Custom, public opinion, law, church, and state – all would have shaken their massive heads against her plea, and sent her back to bondage.”

60. “As for her own share in the matter, she felt no shame at all. It had pleased Satan to come to her aid. Considering carefully, she did not see who else would have done so. Custom, public opinion, law, church, and state – all would have shaken their massive heads against her plea, and sent her back to bondage.”

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “Laura took them into her arms. The great fans of orange tracery seemed to her even more beautiful than the chrysanthemums, for they had been given to her, they were a surprise. She sniffed. They smelt of woods, of dark rustling woods like the wood to whose edge she came so often in the country of her autumn imagination.”

61. “Laura took them into her arms. The great fans of orange tracery seemed to her even more beautiful than the chrysanthemums, for they had been given to her, they were a surprise. She sniffed. They smelt of woods, of dark rustling woods like the wood to whose edge she came so often in the country of her autumn imagination.”

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “There is an amusing sense of superiority in seeing and remaining unseen.”

62. “There is an amusing sense of superiority in seeing and remaining unseen.”

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Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “He used his intellect as he used his legs: to carry him somewhere else. He studied astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, numerology, fortification, divination, organ building, metallurgy, medicine, perspective, the kabbala, toxicology, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He kept his interest in anatomy and did a dissection whenever he could get hold of a body. He learned Arabic, Catalan, Polish, Icelandic, Basque, Hungarian, Romany, and demotic Greek.”

63. “He used his intellect as he used his legs: to carry him somewhere else. He studied astrology, astronomy, botany, chemistry, numerology, fortification, divination, organ building, metallurgy, medicine, perspective, the kabbala, toxicology, philosophy, and jurisprudence. He kept his interest in anatomy and did a dissection whenever he could get hold of a body. He learned Arabic, Catalan, Polish, Icelandic, Basque, Hungarian, Romany, and demotic Greek.”

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

Sylvia Townsend Warner Quote: “This new year was changing her whole conception of spring. She had thought of it as a denial of winter, a green spur that thrust through a tyrant’s rusty armor. Now she saw it as something filial, gently unlacing the helm of the old warrior and comforting his rough cheek.”

64. “This new year was changing her whole conception of spring. She had thought of it as a denial of winter, a green spur that thrust through a tyrant’s rusty armor. Now she saw it as something filial, gently unlacing the helm of the old warrior and comforting his rough cheek.”

— Sylvia Townsend Warner

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