The fact is, for most of us, what happens to ourselves is so much more important than what happens to other people that the smallest mote in our own eye will prevent us from being unduly harrowed by someone else's beam.
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit… - Patricia Wentworth
I used to do miserably in English literature, which I thought was a sign of moral turpitude. As I look back on it, I think it was rather to my credit…
- Patricia Wentworth
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds. - Patricia Wentworth
A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.
Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything. - Patricia Wentworth
Take things as they come. Take things as they are. What does it matter? There's one end to everything.
... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind. - Patricia Wentworth
... the things that happened in your body were never as bad as the things that happened in your mind.
Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable. - Patricia Wentworth
Emotion which you do not share can become intolerable.
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb. - Patricia Wentworth
Love and a cold cannot be hid. It is, I believe, a Spanish proverb.
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power. - Patricia Wentworth
It is the man who is sure of himself who disregards the opinion of the world. To be sure is to have power.
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation. - Patricia Wentworth
there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.
Most of the things one worries about never happen. - Patricia Wentworth
Most of the things one worries about never happen.
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