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"It became plain very soon after our marriage that ours was to be a literary partnership."
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"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
"In this choice, as I look back over more than half a century, I can only follow - and trust - the same sort of instinct that one follows in the art of fiction."
"But a girl of seventeen is not always thinking of books, especially in the Oxford summer term."
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