the large black slugs ... come out at dusk. Enormous slugs. As big as crocodiles. So huge we need a gun to shoot them. And by the end of the summer, if they go on growing, we shall have to go out in pairs together for protection.
children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterab… - Nan Fairbrother
children once settled and confident can mostly be left, it seems, to manage their difficulties without us. Only what we must do, always and unalterab…
- Nan Fairbrother
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children. - Nan Fairbrother
children are not undeveloped versions of adult people: they are a different race of beings: they are children.
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a t… - Nan Fairbrother
As every real estate agent knows, a poor house in good surroundings will sell for a higher price than a better house in poor surroundings, and in a t…
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures. - Nan Fairbrother
Enthusiasm is a plant which grows variously in the varying soils of different natures.
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other… - Nan Fairbrother
Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other…
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for. - Nan Fairbrother
The sorrows we imagine are more profound and inconsolable than real life leaves us time for.
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the complet… - Nan Fairbrother
I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the complet…
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they… - Nan Fairbrother
The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain, to show them that we love them, not when we feel like it, but when they…
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work. - Nan Fairbrother
leisure is an attitude of mind, not simply remission of work.
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