In my Commonplace...

6/14/2012

"...then it suddenly struck him that, for a man who resented curiosity as deeply as he did, he was asking an appalling number of questions. He had noticed before that the one idea of adults, when conversing with children, seemed to be to ask them questions. Extremely vulgar and ill bred."

Elizabeth Goudge, Gentian Hill

4 Comments

Pam link

6/21/2012 02:58:02 pm

What a piece of art, this blog of commonplacing thoughts. It inspires me.

Laurie

6/25/2012 04:34:34 am

Thank you, Pam. I am happy to know you could see something in all of this. I hope you love a commonplace too.

Linda

6/29/2012 07:00:26 am

Your blog was recently linked in the Ambleside yahoo group. I have enjoyed browsing. What book is this quote from? I like it.

Laurie

6/29/2012 07:12:41 am

oh. i forgot to record the author! It is Elizabeth Goudge in Gentian Hill.
Thank you for asking!

"Ideas
won't keep; something must be done about them."
- Alfred Whitehead

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Laurie

"Perhaps this is one of the secrets of life--to know 'glory' when we see it."
--Charlotte Mason

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