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If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put … - Katherine Mansfield
" "If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools. With mushrooms it is so simple — you salt them well, put them aside and have patience. But with love, you have no sooner lighted on anything that bears even the remotest resemblance to it than you are perfectly certain it is not only a genuine specimen, but perhaps the only genuine mushroom ungathered.
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About Katherine Mansfield
Katherine Mansfield Murry (14 October 1888 – 9 January 1923), born Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp, was a New Zealand poet and writer of short fiction, who wrote under the name Katherine Mansfield.
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Kathleen Mansfield Beauchamp
Alternative Names:
Katherine Mansfield Beauchamp Murry
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Kathleen Murry
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Katherine Beauchamp Mansfield
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Kathleen Mansfield Murry
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