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“conversation is now pretty well a lost art.”

Book:The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill

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The reminiscences of Lady Dorothy Nevill

This book offers a first-hand account of Lady Dorothy Nevill's life, capturing her personal insights and anecdotes from her own perspective. more

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Dorothy Nevill

Dorothy Nevill was an English writer born in 1826 and died in 1913. Her works mainly involved historical novels and biographies, known for their delicate writing and profound insights into characters' psychology. more

“The slightest emotion of disinterested kindness that passes through the mind improves and refreshes that mind, producing generous thought and noble feeling, as the sun and rain foster your favourite flowers. Cherish kind wishes, my children; for a time may come when you may be enabled to put them in practice.”

Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

“The power of admiring whatever is deserving of admiration, the nice and quick perception of the beautiful and the true, is one of the highest and noblest of our faculties, born of taste, and knowledge, and wisdom, or rather it is taste, and wisdom, and knowledge, in one rare and great combination.”

Beautiful Born Nice Taste Perception Highest Appreciation Combination Faculty Admiration Deserving Admiring Knowledge And Wisdom

Book:OUR VILLAGE

Source: OUR VILLAGE

“Autumn glows upon us like a splendid evening; it is the very sunset of the year.”

Years Evening Sunset Autumn Splendid

Book:Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

Source: Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery

“I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.”

Ifs Persons Labor Excellence Lawyer Length Bores Detest

Author:Mary Russell Mitford

“Our English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!”

People Has Beens Bits Poor Stones Down And Woods Treated Reputation Idols Idolatry Knocking

Author:Mary Russell Mitford

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