It is the steady and merciless increase of occupations, the augmented speed at which we are always trying to live, the crowding of each day with more work than it can profitably hold, which has cost us, among other things, the undisturbed enjoyment of friends. Friendship takes time, and we have no time to give it.
Agnes RepplierThe comfortable thing about the study of history is that it inclines us to think hopefully of our own times.
Agnes RepplierBargaining is essential to the life of the world; but nobody has ever claimed that it is an ennobling process.
Agnes RepplierEnglish civilization rests largely upon tea and cricket, with mighty spurts of enjoyment on Derby Day, and at Newmarket.
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