Laura Riding Jackson (1901–1991) poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
Lives of Wives (London: Cassell, 1939)
“If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.”
Source: I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau
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