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“Only English folk know what is meant by gravy; consequently, the English alone are competent to speak on the question of sauce.”
― The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
― The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
“But we have no money. Suffer as we may, there's no help for it—because we have no money. Lives may be wasted—worse, far worse than wasted—just because there is no money. At this moment a whole world of men and women is in pain and sorrow—because they have no money. How often have we said that? The world is made so; everything has to be bought with money.”
― The Nether World
― The Nether World
“Let beauty perish if it cannot ally itself with mind.”
― The Odd Women
― The Odd Women
“. . . the love of a man and a woman who can think intelligently may be the best thing life has to offer them.”
― The Odd Women
― The Odd Women
“Since the publication of his first book he had avoided as far as possible all knowledge of what the critics had to say about him; his nervous temperament could not bear the agitation of reading these remarks, which, however inept, define an author and his work to so many people incapable of judging for themselves.”
― New Grub Street
― New Grub Street
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