Giving a party is like having a baby: its conception is more fun than its completion; and once you have begun it, it is almost impossible to stop.
librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect. - Jan Struther
librarianship is one of the few callings in the world for which is it still possible to feel unqualified admiration and respect.
- Jan Struther
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, … - Jan Struther
It oughtn't to need a war to make us talk to each other in buses, and invent our own amusements in the evenings, and live simply, and eat sparingly, …
Punctuality is the thief of adventure. - Jan Struther
Punctuality is the thief of adventure.
It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person. - Jan Struther
It's just as important to marry the right life as the right person.
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar… - Jan Struther
Private opinion creates public opinion. Public opinion overflows eventually into national behavior as things are arranged at present, can make or mar…
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first… - Jan Struther
To be put down in this world, and given only eighty years to get to know it in, is like being let loose in the United States of America for the first…
It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being al… - Jan Struther
It seemed to her sometimes that the most important thing about marriage was not a home or children or a remedy against sin, but simply there being al…
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks. - Jan Struther
In childhood the daylight always fails too soon - except when there are going to be fireworks.
For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still. - Jan Struther
For to love, loveless, is a bitter pill:But to be loved, unloving, bitterer still.
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