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• Well, when I am fifty-three or so I would like to write a novel as good as Persuasion but with a modern…
• The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
• Curious how Love destroys every vestige of that politeness which the human race, in its years of evolution, has so painfully acquired.
• A straight nose is a great help if one wishes to look serious'.
• There are some things (like first love and one’s first reviews) at which a woman in her middle years does not care…
• Nature is all very well in her place, but she must not be allowed to make things untidy.
• I do not object to the phenomena, but I do object to the parrot.
• I saw something nasty in the woodshed.
• Like all really strong-minded women, on whom everybody flops, she adored being bossed about. It was so restful.
• You have the most revolting Florence Nightingale complex,' said Mrs. Smiling. It is not that at all, and well you know it.…
• She liked Victorian novels. They were the only kind of novel you could read while eating an apple.
• One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite…

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