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They may turn out to be a great disappointment, or perhaps they may be full of enchanting surprises. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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Each marriage has to be judged separately, and we never know what's going on in another person's marriage. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I don't write for any particular kind of person. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I remember the evacuee children from towns and cities throwing stones at the farm animals. When we explained that if you did that you wouldn't have any milk, meat or eggs, they soon learned to respect the animals. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I was sent to a finishing school, which didn't last long when mother found out how badly chaperoned we were. Then I 'came out' before going to a domestic science school. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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In my eighties, my best friends are in their fifties, and I have many friends at university. It keeps one young, and up with the vocabulary. That's terribly important, especially for a writer. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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It seemed sensible to move to a market town where I could walk everywhere. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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I'll tell you what: I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. ↗

— Elie Wiesel

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My father was a soldier and my mother was a great mover. She once counted up how many places she had lived in during the first 25 years of her marriage and it came to 20. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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My first husband would never make up his mind in less than five years, so I used to get him to think that whatever course of action needed to be taken was his idea. Then he'd go right ahead. ↗

— Mary Wesley

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