Growing up in the English ...

Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.
 Jessica Mitford

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Being self-made is a state of mind, and once you put that mentality to work, your success will come.
 Dave East
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 Dave East
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
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The character and mentality of the keepers may be of more importance in understanding prisons than the character and mentality of the kept.
 Jessica Mitford
the whole point of muck-raking, apart from all the jokes, is to try to do something about what you've been writing about. You may not be able to change the world but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
 Jessica Mitford
You may not be able to change the world, but at least you can embarrass the guilty.
 Jessica Mitford
One is only really inwardly comfortable, so to speak, after one's life has assumed some sort of shape. Not just a routine, like studying or a job or being a housewife, but something more complete than all those, which would include goals set by oneself and a circle of life-time type friends. I think this is one of the hardest things to achieve, in fact often just trying doesn't achieve it but rather it seems to develop almost by accident.
 Jessica Mitford
Enemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
 Jessica Mitford