Pale purple as the bloom om a ripe plum, veined with the gold of late flowering gorse, set with small slender birches,just turning yellow,with red-berried rowans and thicket of bracken, the heath lay steeped in sunshine.
You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar. - Flora Thompson
You can lock up from a thief, but you can't from a liar.
- Flora Thompson
Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle. - Flora Thompson
Nature knows no calendar, the seasons move in a circle.
Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the wo… - Flora Thompson
Other days, other ways; and, although they have now been greatly improved upon, the old country midwives did at least succeed in bringing into the wo…
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-s… - Flora Thompson
It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still thick on the trees, but de-s…
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more. - Flora Thompson
The wife ought to have the first child and the husband the second, then there wouldn't ever be any more.
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity. - Flora Thompson
We cannot bring the good old days back but, if we must eat mass-made foods, get laws passed to insist upon its goodness and purity.
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be broug… - Flora Thompson
Special qualities are required of the essayist. A poem or a novel may spring from the inner consciousness of an author. Reasoning poers must be broug…
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot. - Flora Thompson
Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot.
The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many. - Flora Thompson
The luxuries of the few were becoming necessities of the many.
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