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Vita Sackville-West Quotes: For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
         

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.


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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.



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