Prejudices of taste, likings and dislikings, are not always vanquishable by reason.
Mary Russell MitfordTo think of playing cricket for hard cash! Money and gentility would ruin any pastime under the sun.
Mary Russell MitfordOur English people are much addicted to raising idols, and then revenging themselves on their own idolatry by knocking down and demolishing the poor bits of wood and stone that they had worshipped as gods. How many literary reputations have been so treated!
Mary Russell Mitford