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Nowadays, people resort to all kinds of activities in order to calm themselves after a stressful event: performing yoga poses in a sauna, leaping off bridges while tied to a bungee, killing imaginary zombies with imaginary weapons, and so forth. But in Miss Penelope Lumley's day, it was universally understood that there is nothing like a nice cup of tea to settle one's nerves in the aftermath of an adventure- a practice many would find well worth reviving. ↗
If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants. ↗
#arise #cleverness #confusion #duty #faithful
The great gift of conversation lies less in displaying it ourselves than in drawing it out of others. He who leaves your company pleased with himself and his own cleverness is perfectly well pleased with you. ↗
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. ↗
Daily life is governed by an economic system in which the production and consumption of insults tends to balance out. ↗
Which would you rather be if you had the choice--divinely beautiful or dazzlingly clever or angelically good? ↗
