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Feeling low? Some pertinent advice from 1820 and it’s all still relevant today

  Photo from my London garden April 2017 Almost two hundred years ago in February 1820, the British writer Sydney Smith wrote to his friend Lady Georgiana Morpeth offering what he called ‘Advice Concerning Low Spirits’ at a time when she was deeply distressed.   A great deal of the advice he offers his friend…

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Evidence of Good Parenting:

  “The child has no desire to be famous.”   Alain de Botton

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