Quote#Kindness
[T]he delight in natural things—colours, forms, scents—when there was…
Quote byMary Augusta Ward · 1851–1920
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: A Writer's Recollections (1918), Ch. V, p. 90.
English (original)
[T]he delight in natural things—colours, forms, scents—when there was nothing to restrain or hamper it, has often been a kind of intoxication, in which thought and consciousness seemed suspended.
— Mary Augusta Ward
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