It is somehow reassuring to discover that the word travel is derived from travail, denoting the pains of childbirth.
Jessica MitfordPrison walls are meant not only to keep convicts in, but to keep the would-be investigator out.
Jessica Mitford[On the United States:] A nation which does not appreciate that the simple elocution exercise 'Merry Mary married hairy Harry' contains not one but three vowel sounds.
Jessica MitfordEnemies are, to me, as important as friends in my life, and when they die I mourn their passing.
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