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Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Reading was very important; the proper exercise and development of one's mind was a paramount duty.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Reading, Exercise, Mind
Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.117, Jester House Publishing

Beauty made you love, and love made you beautiful.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Beautiful, And Love, Made
Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (2009). “The Enchanted April”, p.120, Cosimo, Inc.

Keep quiet and say one's prayers-certainly not merely the best, but the only things to do if one would be truly happy; but, ashamed of asking when I have received so much, the only form of prayer I would use would be a form of thanksgiving.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Prayer, Asking, Use
Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.164, Delphi Classics

She had been dragged in the most humiliating of all dusts, the dust reserved for older women who let themselves be approached, on amorous lines, by boys... It had all been pure vanity, all just a wish, in these waning days of hers, still to feel power, still to have the assurance of her beauty and its effects.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Beauty, Boys, Vanity

Impossible for anyone to conceive the torments of his nights in bed with his beloved one and estranged from her. That turning of backs, that cold space between their two unhappy bodies.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Marriage, Night, Space
Elizabeth Von Arnim, Elizabeth (1990). “Love”, Viking Press

Life is an admirable arrangement, isn't it, little mother. It is so clever of it to have June in every year and a morning in every day, let alone things like birds, and Shakespeare, and one's work.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Mother, Morning, Clever
Elizabeth von Arnim (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Elizabeth von Arnim (Illustrated)”, p.1374, Delphi Classics

She made him think of his mother, of his nurse, of all things kind and comforting, besides having the attraction of not being his mother or his nurse.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Mother, Thinking, Nurse
Elizabeth von Arnim (2016). “The Enchanted April”, p.25, Jester House Publishing

Who can begin conventional amiability the first thing in the morning?

Elizabeth von Arnim
Morning, Firsts, Conventional
Elizabeth Von Arnim (2006). “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”, p.42, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable - should persist after the beauty is gone.

Elizabeth von Arnim
Beauty, Vanity, Gone

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