The education bestowed on Flora Poste by her parents had been expensive, athletic and prolonged; and when they died within a few weeks of one another during the annual epidemic of the influenza or Spanish Plague which occurred in her twentieth year, she was discovered to possess every art and grace save that of earning her own living.
Stella Gibbons
Something nasty in the woodshed.
Graceless, Pointless, Feckless and Aimless waited their turn to be milked.
One of the disadvantages of almost universal education was the fact that all kinds of persons acquired a familiarity with one's favorite writers. It gave one a curious feeling; it was like seeing a drunken stranger wrapped in one's dressing gown.
funny education feeling writers fact universal familiarity favorite stranger books curious humour
... What a pleasant life could be had in this world by a handsome, sensible old lady of good fortune, blessed with a sound constitution and a firm will
happiness ageing good-fortune
Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly.
funny humour
While she lay there with these old worn thoughts coming obediently into her mind, called there by habit and the familiar quiet of early morning, she was aware that at the back of her mind there was another thought that was not at all stale, but so fresh that it was nearly a feeling, with all a feeling's delicious power to kill thought.
recognition thoughts introspective
Dear, Missus, Mister - I beg you never to give thoughts to war, in no way, not to work for it, not by writing nor by reading about it nor by looking at the pictures nor on the television about it. Not in any way ever, at all. Not by being a soldier, sailor, airman, work in factory or above all at atom bombs. Above all at atom bombs. No obligation for this, dear fellow creature. Signed Your Fellow Creature.''P.S.,' said Gerald slowly, without turning from the window, 'If we all do this, we shall succeed.
war inspirational
education
Haven't you enough money?'For she knew that this is what is the matter with nearly everybody over twenty-five.
money
Surely she had endured enough for one evening without having to listen to intelligent conversation?
endurance conversation
Happiness can never hope to command so much interest as distress.
introspection
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