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/ page 210 of 1205 /For as one star another far exceeds, So souls in heaven are placed by their deeds.
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Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;/ When thou art old there's grief enough for thee. / Mother's wag, pretty boy, / Father's sorrow, father's joy.
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All those afternoons on the playing-fields and in the fives courts and in the squash courts made the otherwise grey and melancholy days pass a lot more quickly.
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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.
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A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
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Unless you have been to boarding-school when you are very young, it is absolutely impossible to appreciate the delights of living at home.
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Pain was something we were expected to endure. But I doubt very much if you would be entirely happy today if a doctor threw a towel in your face and jumped on you with a knife.
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I do have a blurred memory of sitting on the stairs and trying over and over again to tie one of my shoelaces, but that is all that comes back to me of school itself.
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Prayers were held in Assembly Hall. We all perched in rows on wooden benches while teachers sat up on the platform in armchairs, facing us.
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Pear Drops were exciting because they had a dangerous taste. All of us were warned against eating them, and the result was that we ate them more than ever.
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Though my father was Norwegian, he always wrote his diaries in perfect English.
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Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different people.
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I began to realize how simple life could be if one had a regular routine to follow with fixed hours, a fixed salary, and very little original thinking to do.
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I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.
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Nobody gets a nervous breakdown or a heart attack from selling kerosene to gentle country folk from the back of a tanker in Somerset.
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The rules of Prep were simple but strict. You were forbidden to look up from your work, and you were forbidden to talk.
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Newfoundland was not much of a country. For three weeks we trudged all over that desolate land with enormous loads on our backs. We carried tents and sleeping bags and saucepans and food and axes.
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Our family got ready for our first drive in the first motor-car we had ever owned. It was an enormous long black French automobile called a De Dion-Bouton which had a canvas roof that folded back.
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On the way to school and on the way back we always passed the sweet-shop. We always stopped. We lingered outside its small window gazing in at the big glass jars.
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Egypt was desert country. It was bare and sandy and full of tombs and relics and Egyptians, and I didn't fancy it at all.
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