Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon Quotes

• My work is done; I have nothing left to do but to go to my Father.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Father, Done, Last Words

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• Middle-age has its compensations. You feel no need to do what you do not like. You are no longer ashamed of yourself; you are reconciled to being what you are, and you do not much mind what people think of you.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• I am often tired of myself, and I have a notion that by travel I can add to my personality, and so change myself a little. I do not bring back from a journey quite the same self that I took.

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Tired, Character, Journey

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• Writer Somerset Maugham, after his parents deaths, spent a few stultifying years in his uncle's vicarage. Later, in his teens at a boarding-school, having lost his belief in the existence of God said: "The whole horrible structure, based not on the love of God, but on the fear of hell, tumbled down like a house of cards."

  Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon

  Uncles, School, House Of Cards

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