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What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. i think you should impress this fact on your children because i think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.
-Nancy Mitford
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What Is So Nice & So Unexpected

Nancy Mitford
What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. i think you should impress this fact on your children because i think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.
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