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• I sometimes think that God will ask us, 'That wonderful world of mine, why didn't you enjoy it more?

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  Pensar, Mundo, A Veces

  Ronald Blythe (2007). “Out of the Valley: Another Year at Wormingford”, p.18, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• Acceptance of death when it arrives is one thing, but to allow it to upstage the joys of living is ingratitude.

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  Acceptance, Joy, One Thing

  Ronald Blythe (1984). “Characters & Their Landscapes”, Harvest Books

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• The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

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  Appreciate, Appreciate Life, Novel

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.13, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• One of the reasons why old people make so many journeys into the past is to satisfy themselves that it is still there.

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  Memories, Journey, Past

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.38, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• En cuanto al eclesiástico británico, va a la iglesia como va al baño, con el mínimo alboroto y sin dar explicaciones si puede evitarlo.

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  Church, Helping, Bathroom

  'The Age of Illusion' (1963) ch. 12

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• Death used to announce itself in the thick of life but now people drag on so long it sometimes seems that we are reaching the stage when we may have to announce ourselves to death. It is as though one needs a special strength to die, and not a final weakness.

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  Long, People, Special

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• Jane Austen can in fact get more drama out of morality than most other writers can get from shipwreck, battle, murder, or mayhem.

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  Drama, Battle, Facts

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• To be old is to be part of a huge and ordinary multitude... the reason why old age was venerated in the past was because it was extraordinary.

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  Past, Age, Ordinary

  Ronald Blythe (1979). “The View in Winter: Reflections on Old Age”, p.17, Hymns Ancient and Modern Ltd

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• La vejez es - un montón de nombres tachados en una libreta de direcciones.

  Ronald Blythe

  Funny, Book, Names

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