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"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
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"For nine years, till the spring of 1881, we lived in Oxford, in a little house north of the Parks, in what was then the newest quarter of the University town."
"A life spent largely among books, and in the exercise of a literary profession, has very obvious drawbacks, as a subject-matter, when one comes to write about it."
"My grandmother made her home at Fox How under the shelter of the fells, with her four daughters, the youngest of whom was only eight when their father died."
"A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one."
"So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us."
"How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!"
"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."
"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
"I wanted to show how a man of sensitive and noble character, born for religion, comes to throw off the orthodoxies of his day and moment, and to go out into the wilderness where all is experiment, and spiritual life begins again."
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