“The camel is old—horribly, mustily old—and it is difficult to conceive that it has ever been anything else.”
Feb 25, 2021
5 min
“‘I laid a trap for you; I told you that I had never met Mrs. Saltpen-Jago. As a matter of fact I met her at lunch on Monday last. She is a pronounced blonde.’”
May 29, 2020
11 min
“‘It seems there is just one way out of the tangle. He’s inclined to be amorous.’”
Apr 30, 2020
9 min
“‘We can’t keep shifting Mr. Chermbacon backwards and forwards as though he was the regulator of an erratic clock.’”
Mar 31, 2020
9 min
“‘As your mother says, you are a mass of selfishness.’”
Feb 29, 2020
10 min
“Yealmton and his wife waged a politely reticent warfare; it was a struggle which Thirza knew she must ultimately win, because she was fighting for existence.”
Jan 31, 2020
12 min
“How long would she struggle in those unfathomed weed-grown depths before she lay as picturesquely still as the drowned heroine of her tale-weavings?”
Dec 24, 2019
12 min
“In Burma it is possible to be a politician without ceasing to be a philosopher.”
Oct 5, 2019
7 min
“Most of those terms are probably wrong, but a little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.”
Aug 30, 2019
3 min
“To the average modern Russian a desire to visit Pskoff is an inexplicable mental freak on the part of a foreigner who wishes to see something of the country he is living in.”
Jun 24, 2019
7 min
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