You will have the benefit of my experiences in Italy.
You can lie awake at night and think; the quality of insomnia depends entirely on what you decide to think of. Can you decide to think? - Yes, you can.
The word 'education' comes from the root e from ex, out, and duco, I lead. It means a leading out. To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul. To Miss Mackay it is a...
She wasn't a person to whom things happen. She did all the happenings.
Remember you must die.
One's prime is the moment one was born for.
Oh she says the inconceivable sorrow of it, those chairs piled up at night when you're sitting in a cafè. The last one left.
It's a whydunnit in q-sharp major and it has a message: never talk to the sort of girls that you wouldn't leave lying about in your drawing-room for the servants to pick up.
I have long wanted to know the Greek language, and this scheme will also serve to impress your knowledge on your own minds. John Stuart Mill used to rise at dawn to learn Greek at the age of five, and...
However, as soon as Mrs. Hogg stepped into her room she disappeared, she simply disappeared. She had no private life whatsoever. God knows where she went in her privacy.
He turns a page of his newspaper and folds it conveniently for reading, and reads it without looking at her again, settling further into his seat with the slight sigh of one whose visitor has left and...
El cursillo aconsejaba a la mujer trabajadora que quisiera mantener la compostura repetir dos veces al día las siguientes frases:
The more religious people are, the more perplexing I find them.
The Brodie set did not for a moment doubt that she would prevail. As soon expect Julius Caesar to apply for a job at a crank school as Miss Brodie. She would never resign. If the authorities wanted to...
Pictures inside frames,' said Dave.'That's really all there is to it/ said Tom...;
Nothing infuriates people more than their own lack of spiritual insight.
Miss Brodie was easily the equal of both sisters together, she was the square on the hypotenuse of a right-angled triangle and they were only the squares on the other two sides.
It is difficult for people of advanced years to start remembering they must die. It is best to form the habit while young.
I see no reason to keep silent about my enjoyment of the sound of my own voice as I work.
El gigantesco murmullo orgánico de la multitud, en nada semejante a la voz de un ser animado, sino más bien como una catarata o una alteración geológica, se propagaba por los parques y el Mall. Solo l...