Truth is often terribly thin, don't you think?
I expect this is what death is like when you meet it. Sort of wildly unfair but inevitable.
Lack of education is an extraordinary handicap when one is being offensive.
The truth of anything at all doesn't lie in someone's account of it. It lies in all the small facts of the time. An advertisement in a paper, the sale of a house, the price of a ring.
Nothing great ever came out of common sense.
There were people whose only interest in life was writing letters. To the newspapers, to authors, to strangers, to City Councils, to the police. It did not much matter to whom; the satisfaction of writing seemed to be all.