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Quote by Rose Wilder Lane

“Life is a thin narrowness of taken-for-granted, a plank over a canyon in a fog.”

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Rose Wilder Lane was an American journalist and author, renowned for her journalism and her novel 'The Mysterious Stranger'. Born on December 5, 1886, she passed away on October 30, 1968. more

“Houses are the abiding joys; they are the most emotion-stirring of all things. An automobile is regarded with fond affection, a typewriter becomes the inseparable companion, clothes can stir sentimentality, and the bit of bric-a-brac is a toy one would weep to see torn away - but houses are real, deep, emotional things. How much excitement in the cutting of a window, what enormous importance in the angle of a roof!”

“A kiss without a mustache is like an egg without salt.”

Kissing Eggs Salt Mustache

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“I ask myself, 'why am I so lazy?' and am too lazy to reply.”

Asks Lazy Laziness

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Constant repetition dulls receptivity.”

Constant Repetition Receptivity

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“We are never aware of the present; each instant of living becomes perceptible only when it is past, so that in a sense we do not live at all, but only remember living.”

Past Remember Instant

Book:Old Home Town

Source: Old Home Town

“No one who has not examined patiently and honestly the other religions of the world can know what Christianity really is, or can join with such truth and sincerity in the words of St. Paul, "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ.”

Knows World Christ Christianity Honestly Ashamed Sincerity

Author:Max Muller

“When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.”

Trying Succeed Aim Always Trying

Author:Colin Greenwood

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