G.M. Malliet Quotes

#1. A lot of nonsense is spoken at funerals, especially when the deceased had not been well liked in life. Many euphemisms are called into play: "vital," "energetic," and (repetitively) "full of life.

G.M. Malliet

#2. Vanity might be a "sin" according to some lights, but he thought in measured doses it was one of life's allowable simple pleasures. It helped everyone get through their days.

G.M. Malliet

#3. For it was a truth universally acknowledged that a single vicar must be in want of a wife.

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#4. Every seed that produces this miraculous bounty has the code that will heal all ills - and a sprout travels from the darkness towards the light, just as we all must do. We simply aren't evolved enough yet to understand how it all fits together.

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#5. Every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).

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