Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age. - Mary Russell Mitford

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If you travel as much as we do, you appreciate the improvements in aircraft design of less noise and more comfort - provided you don't travel in something called economy class, which sounds ghastly.

Mary Russell Mitford

Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.

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