I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
I was not given to looking at life in a rosy light.
The appalling thing about war is that it kills all love of truth.
School is a foretaste of life.
On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.
It gradually dawned upon me that there was no one more difficult to please than my mother.