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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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"We moved over to Silver Spring, actually near University Park."

"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."

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

"Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush."

"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."

"No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere."

"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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"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"The answer, of course, in the mouth of a Christian teacher is that in Christianity alone is there both present joy and future hope."
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