Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other.

Quote by Freya Stark

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Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it...

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering....

This is a great moment, when you see, however distant, the goal of your wandering....

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always...

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always...

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an...

On the whole, age comes more gently to those who have some doorway into an...

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

Curiosity is the one thing invincible in Nature.

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the...

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in...

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in...

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that...

Christmas... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home that...

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine...

Good days are to be gathered like grapes, to be trodden and bottled into wine...

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and...

If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and...

Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.

Happiness is like perfume: You can't give it away without getting a little on yourself.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is...

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is...

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known:...

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known:...

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by...

The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by...

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home...

Christmas ... is not an eternal event at all, but a piece of one's home...

On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time...

On Christmas day you can't get sore, Your fellow man you must adore, There's time...

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next...

Time always seems long to the child who is waiting - for Christmas, for next...

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each...

There's a little vanity chair that Charlie gave me the first Christmas we knew each...

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.

I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.