Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

Nine people out of ten (in Germany and England, perhaps ten people) would rather wait for their rights than fight for their rights.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

We are also rather concerned about our moorhen who went mad while we were in Italy and began to build a nest in a tree. ... she walks about in the tree, looking as uneasy yet persevering as a district visitor in a brothel.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked my cheek as I used to stoke his chops. A human caress from a cat. I felt very meagre and ill-educated that I could not purr.

For the last six weeks I have found myself pestered by some characters in search of an author.