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• there is practically no difference at all between a family and a nation, except the difference in size. A family is a nation seen through the wrong end of a telescope; a nation is a family seen through the right end of a telescope, and I don't believe it is possible to achieve a happy and successful family life, or a happy and successful national life, unless we bear this simple fact in mind and behave accordingly.

  Jan Struther

  Family, Believe, Successful

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first time with a high-powered car and unlimited gasoline - but with a visa that is valid for only a week. It's agonizing, that's what it is.

  Jan Struther

  Life, Time, Years

  Jan Struther (1946). “A Pocket Full of Pebbles”

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• And I am a mockery, who was God before.

  Jan Struther

  Mockery

  Jan Struther, “Age”

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• 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

  Country, Travel, Fun

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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

  Jan Struther

  Weapons, Oblivion, Mood

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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

  Jan Struther

  Children, Fun, Discovery

  Jan Struther (1940). “Mrs. Miniver”

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• It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being always an eye to catch.

  Jan Struther

  Children, Home, Eye

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.13, Prabhat Prakashan

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• 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

  Opportunity, Employment, World

  Jan Struther (1942). “Mrs. Miniver”, p.79, Prabhat Prakashan

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• When there is a world scarcity of any commodity, whether it's food or free speech, then the whole world must go on rations in order that eventually the whole world may have it again in plenty.

  Jan Struther

  Order, Speech, Scarcity

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• I can't abide cats myself, but of course we have to have one in the kitchen to deal with the mice. I insisted on getting a black one, because anything else shows the dirt so in London.

  Jan Struther

  Cat, Kitchen, Black

  Jan Struther (1956). “A pocketful of pebbles”

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• She saw every personal religion as a pair of intersecting circles. . . . Probably perfection is reached when the area of the two outer crescents, added together, is exactly equal to that of the leaf-shaped piece in the middle. On paper there must be some neat mathematical formula for arriving at this; in life, none.

  Jan Struther

  Women, Circles, Two

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