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Rosa Nouchette Carey
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“Every one has his or her style of conversation, just as all authors have their own peculiar style of writing. Mrs. Baxter, for example, delighted in iteration; she had a habit of taking a particular word and working it to death.”
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“It is possible for a man to be so cased in armor that even a pin-prick of annoyance will not find ingress. It is true the armor may be a little stifling and somewhat inconvenient for workaday use, but it is a grand thing to be saved from pricks.”
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“I think the hardest thing in life is when we see those we love turn down a wrong path, and when no entreaty will induce them to retrace their steps.”
Rosa Nouchette Carey, English children's writer
(1840 - 1909)