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Jan Struther quotes: To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

To visit a new country for the first time is great fun; but it is even greater fun to introduce somebody else to a country that you know.

Jan Struther quotes: It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

It took me forty years on earth To reach this sure conclusion: There is no Heaven but clarity, No Hell except confusion.

Jan Struther quotes: [Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Jan Struther quotes: How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

How much of the fun of parenthood lay in watching the children remake, with delighted wonder, one's own discoveries.

Jan Struther quotes: Swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

Swans ... always look as though they'd just been reading their own fan-mail.

Jan Struther quotes: Hard words will break no bones:But more than bones are brokenBy the inescapable stonesOf fond words left unspoken.

Hard words will break no bones:
But more than bones are broken
By the inescapable stones
Of fond words left unspoken.

Jan Struther quotes: And I am a mockery, who was God before.

And I am a mockery, who was God before.

Jan Struther quotes: Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

Left wing ... Right wing ... it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

Jan Struther quotes: In childhood the daylight always fails too soon except when there are going to be fireworks;

In childhood the daylight always fails too soon
except when there are going to be fireworks;

Jan Struther quotes: Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

Constructive destruction is one of the most delightful employments in the world, and in civilized life the opportunities for it are only too rare.

Jan Struther quotes: Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.

Clem Miniver: She was a good cook, as good cooks go. And as good cooks go, she went.

Jan Struther quotes: Librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

Librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.

Jan Struther quotes: One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

One is what one remembers: no more, no less.

Jan Struther quotes: Punctuality is the thief of adventure ...

Punctuality is the thief of adventure ...

Jan Struther quotes: [Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

[Gardening] is a means by which you can attain many valuable hours of solitude without being thought unsociable.

Jan Struther quotes: Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.

Jan Struther quotes: O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

O love's a simple word to sayWith nature aiding and abetting

Jan Struther quotes: It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

It's as important to marry the right life as it is the right person.

Jan Struther quotes: For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.

Jan Struther quotes: To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

To be entirely at leisure for one day is to be for one day an immortal

Jan Struther quotes: The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

The importance of the ordinary citizen is very greatly underestimated - not so much by those in authority as by the ordinary citizen himself.

Jan Struther quotes: To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

To achieve unity without uniformity is the whole essence of the democratic way of life.

Jan Struther quotes: Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

Words were the only net to catch a mood, the only sure weapon against oblivion.

Jan Struther quotes: [T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

[T]he mechanics of life should never be allowed to interfere with living.

Jan Struther quotes: The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.

The worst of gardening is that it's so full of metaphors one hardly knows where to begin.