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A British Heritage commonplace book

‘I THINK I MAY BOAST MYSELF TO BE, WITH ALL POSSIBLE VANITY, THE MOST UNLEARNED AND UNINFORMED FEMALE WHO EVER DARED TO BE AN AUTHORESS.’

— Jane Austen

PAUL FELIX
Dad keeps an eye on the kids playing on the stepping stones that cross the Ogmore River near Porthcawl in the Vale of Glamorgan.

‘WHAT A BOOK A DEVIL’S CHAPLAIN MIGHT WRITE ON THE CLUMSY, WASTEFUL, BLUNDERING, LOW AND HORRIBLY CRUEL WORKS OF NATURE!’

— Charles Darwin

‘If any one of London’s railway stations deserves to be a shrine, it’s Paddington. Its departure board reads like a romantic novel, as it flicks through Oxford, Bath, the Cotswolds and the very heart of England.’

— Mark Wallington

‘YES, I REMEMBER ADLESTROP-THE NAME, BECAUSE ONE AFTERNOON OF HEAT THE EXPRESS TRAIN DREW UP THERE UNWONTEDLY. IT WAS LATE JUNE.’

— Edward Thomas

‘For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors, and laugh at them in our turn?’

— Jane Austen