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Human creatures have a mervellous power of adapting themselves to necessity.

There should be no such thing as a class of females vulgarized by the necessity of finding daily amusement.

I have the happiness of a passing moment, and what more can mortal ask?

Parks are but pavement disguised with a growth of grass.

London is a huge shop, with a hotel on the upper storeys.

exchanged looks, and laughed together.

The misery of having no time to read a thousand glorious books.

A pipe for the hour of work; a cigarette for the hour of conception; a cigar for the hour of vacuity.

Life, I fancy, would very often be insupportable, but for the luxury of self-compassion.

Perhaps it is while drinking tea that I most of all enjoy the sense of leisure.

Life is a huge farce, and the advantage of possessing a sense of humour is that it enables one to defy fate with mocking laughter.

Flippancy, the most hopeless form of intellectual vice.

To be at other people's orders brings out all the bad in me.

That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be
generous.

No, no; women, old or young, should never have to think about money.

Time is money says the proverb, but turn it around and you get a precious truth. Money is time.

Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

I don't advise. You mutn't give any weight to what I say, except in so far as your own judgment approves it.

I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.

It is our duty never to speak ill of others, you know; least of all when we know that to do so will be the cause of much pain and trouble.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

A womanly occupation means, practically, an occupation that a man disdains.

I see. I imagined that he was cast out of all decent society".
"If society were really decent, he would have been

To like Keats is a test of fitness for understanding poetry, just as to like Shakespeare is a test of general mental capacity.

The result will be something unutterably tedious.

Indolence had a great part in his temperament; a book, a sunny corner, and entire tranquillity, formed his ideal of supportable existence.

Literature nowadays is a trade ... the successful man of letters is your skilful tradesman. He thinks first and foremost of the markets.

Have the courage of your desire.

For one thing, I know every book of mine by its scent.

To every man it is decreed: Thou shalt live alone. Happy they who imagine that they have escaped the common lot; happy, whilst they imagine it.