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It made me cross today when folks wished me a happy New Year. It seemed like mocking when I hadn't a soul belonging to me to make it happy.

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[To be given a beloved old book is] like being given something out of another's heart and life.

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How would you feel if you hadn't anybody belonging to you, and if nobody thought about you at Christmas?

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Good Morning!

Such perfect weather to wake up to 🌞

I hope those who are celebrating have an enjoyable day.

I hope those who are not celebrating have an enjoyable day.

This time of year I always re-read this collection of LMM short stories. So expect some yuletide themed quotes over the next 24 hours.

Our Christmas Day tradition is to settle in and have a movie marathon of Holiday Inn and White Christmas 🎥 🍿

The Grumpy Chick is always grumpy about the choice of movies but always ends up laughing and singing along.

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A person who wants to be left alone flies in the face of Providence, who decreed that folks for their own good were not to be let alone.

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I'm going to open [my life] to all kindness and companionship I can find in young and old.

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I'm going to open [my life] to all kindness and companionship I can find in young and old.

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The more I saw of men, the more I liked cats.

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I'm going to do my best and not care what people say.

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Looking relieved, manlike, as soon as he found a woman to shoulder the responsibility.

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Anyone who has sympathy and understanding to give has a treasure that is without money and without price.

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I can bear with incompetency, but falsehood and deceit I cannot and will not tolerate.

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Tact is a faculty for meandering around to a given point instead of making a bee-line.

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One of my all-time favourite LMM short stories is 'Quarantine at Alexander Abrahams'.

It is sheer delight to read - either to yourself or out loud.

Re-reading it last night - for the first time in a while - I was struck by the insight it provides into how infectious diseases were handled in the past:

- police enforced lockdowns
- vaccination
- contact tracing

Sound familiar?!

So these are not new practices that suddenly were forced upon people for the very first time because of a virus known as COVID.

These are tried and tested public health measures that have alleviated human suffering for at least 200 years.

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Fine scenery is very satisfying to the soul, to be sure, but it doesn’t still the cravings of the inner girl.

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Just as long as [you] brood over your own worrier - and didn’t think of anyone but yourself you’re miserable.

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Life [is] too big to leave room for pettiness.

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When one is seventeen and cannot go to a party… the world is very apt to seem a howling wilderness.

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It is easier to behave nicely when you have your good clothes on.

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The wisdom of loving and the happiness of being loved.

It's been a ❤️ 💞 ❤️ day today