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Quotes from Elizabeth and Her German Garden — Elizabeth von Arnim

1866–1941 Australia

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What a happy woman I am, living in a garden, with books, babies, birds, and flowers, and plenty of leisure to enjoy them! Yet my town acquaintances look upon it as imprisonment, and burying, and I don't what besides, and would rend the air with their shrieks if condemned to such a life. Sometimes I fell as if I were blest above all my fellows in being able to find my happiness so easily.

Elizabeth and Her German Garden (1898)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth von Arnim (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.