“Those we love are entitled to resent the allowances we make for them.”
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Haven (1951)
“Pride and resentment are not indigenous in the human heart; and perhaps it is due to the gardener's innate love of the exotic that we take such pains to make them thrive.”
— Hope Mirrlees, book Lud-in-the-Mist
Lud-in-the-Mist (1926)
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