There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

There is probably nothing like living together for blinding people to each other.

Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.

There isn't much to say. I haven't been at all deedy.

Well, Buttermere, this is a day that is good to live and breathe in, that makes a man feel in his prime. Standing here in front of my house, I feel as young as when I moved into it thirty years ago, in the year eighteen hundred and fifty-nine. What aged man would you take me to be, as I step as it were casually into your view?

Anyone who picks up a Compton-Burnett finds it very hard not to put it down.

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.