109 Quotes by Nancy Mitford

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    The great advantage of living in a large family is that early lesson of life’s essential unfairness.

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    Wrapped in her mink bedspread, she would lie all day with her puppy beside her, reading fairy stories.

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    Love indeed – whoever invented love ought to be shot.

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    You’ve no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it’s over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong.

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    I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It’s so frightfully good I’ve never bothered to read another.

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    When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it’s always a bad sign, at home.

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    Always remember, children, that marriage is a very intimate relationship. It’s not just sitting and chatting to a person; there are other things, you know.

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