The success or failure of a life, as far as posterity goes, seems to lie in the more or less luck of seizing the right moment of escape
Adolescence: A stage between infancy and adultery.
DISCUSSION, n. A method of confirming others in their errors.
TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.
Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.
Convent - a place of retirement for women who wish for leisure to meditate upon the sin of idleness.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
I have been working since I was 11 on everything including period dramas.
The best way for women to acquire knowledge is from conversation with a father, a brother, or a friend, in the way of family intercourse and easy conversation, and by such a course of reading as they may recommend.
When we were all getting ready to leave, I walked up to my grandfather and gave him a hug and kiss on the cheek. He wiped my lip print off with his palm and gave me a look. He doesn't like the boys in the family to touch him. But I'm very glad that I did it anyway in case he dies. I never got to do that with my Aunt Helen.
To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.