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Mary A. Ward

"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."

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"In the spring and summer of 1989, a serious political disturbance took place in China."

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"I'm showing some of my sculptures in Holland in the spring, so we'll see."

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Amber Hurdle

"It Might As Well Be Spring... I used to sing that as a young girl in my voice lessons. Then I picked it up again and it spoke to me in a whole new way."

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"Our lips were for each other and our eyes were full of dreams. We knew nothing of travel and we knew nothing of loss. Ours was a world of eternal spring, until the summer came."

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"With the coming of spring, I am calm again."

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Amber Hurdle

"This we had to endure with a serious reduction in the price of goods - added to this early in the ensuing spring our glost oven fell while firing doing us considerable damage and rendering it necessary to build a new one."

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Amber Hurdle

"It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far."

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Amber Hurdle

"Spring won't let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again."

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Amber Hurdle

"The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month."

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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."

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Mary A. Ward
"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."

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Mary A. Ward
"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."

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Mary A. Ward
"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."

Life

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Mary A. Ward
"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."

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Mary A. Ward
"But the mind travels far - and mysteriously - in sleep."

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Mary A. Ward
"I loved nearly all my teachers; but it was not till I went home to live at Oxford, in 1867, that I awoke intellectually to a hundred interests and influences that begin much earlier nowadays to affect any clever child."

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Mary A. Ward
"English girls' schools today providing the higher education are, so far as my knowledge goes, worthily representative of that astonishing rise in the intellectual standards of women which has taken place in the last half-century."

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Mary A. Ward
"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."

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Mary A. Ward
"As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted."

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Mary A. Ward
"We believed that growth through Local Government, and perhaps through some special machinery for bringing the wishes and influence of women of all classes to bear on Parliament, other than the Parliamentary vote, was the real line of progress."

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