“All the same, I don't mean nothin' you wouldn't like yer mas to know about, see? That's straight, that is. It's Art, and that makes all the difference. *When it ain't Art it's dirt, but if it's Art it's all right, see?*” Art Book:Nightingale Wood Source: Nightingale Wood
“The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.” YearsArtParentGraceWeekDiedExpensiveEarningPlagueAthleticEpidemicsAnnualsFloraInfluenzaCold Comfort Farm Book:Cold comfort farm Source: Cold comfort farm