I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography.
Feather-footed through the plashy fen passes the questing vole.'-William Boot
Yes, cider and tinned salmon are the staple diet of the agricultural classes.
If one's object is ascetic, it is far better to stay in London or Paris or New York; there is practically no extreme of heat or cold, physical risk, loneliness, hunger or thirst that cannot, with a little ingenuity, be conveniently achieved in the centres of civilization.
I am annoyed to find myself continually described by people whom I have never set eyes on as bad-tempered.